Messages in this thread | | | From | (H.J. Lu) | Subject | Re: Strange problem with knfsd and clients dieing after server reboot | Date | Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:25:43 -0700 (PDT) |
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> You are probably not imagining things. I have a small network with (3) > x86 and one Alpha. All are at 2.1.124 w/ knfsd + accompanying kernel > patches. Periodically, things get very strange. Sometimes a client will > absolutely refuse to automount one of the servers - bitching about inode > invalid (I'll try to note the exact wording next time). Once this > happens, it's generally necessary to reboot both ends of the link to > recover. It doesn't seem terribly repeatable, but happens about once a > day.
If you can reliably dupilcate it, I will take a look.
> > One part of the problem is my confusion over the '-a' vs. '-r' options on > kexportfs. They seem to be doing the same thing - unexporting and > re-exporting everything. HJ, can you say just a few more words about > '-r'?
There is one difference. They are the same when you don't use subnet, wildcard nor netgroups in /etc/exports. "-r" will keep those clients mounted from subnet, wildcard or netgroups happy.
-- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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