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Date:      Mon, 3 Jun 2019 16:28:51 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
Cc:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: should an incremental reload of exports for mountd be optional?
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I think that it should be always enabled.  If the only reason not to
is a fear of bugs in the new method, then the old method can be
selected by some back-doorish workaround, like an environment
variable.
-Alan

On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 4:16 PM Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>
> My vote goes to:
>
> Enabled by default (with an option to disable it in case problems pop up).
>
> - Peter
>
>
> > On 31 May 2019, at 23:50, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have created a patch for PR#237860 that improves the time it takes to reload
> > the exports file(s) for an NFS file server from seconds->milliseconds by only doing
> > system calls for the changes to the exports file(s). (Assumes each reload includes
> > changes to only a small fraction of the entries.)
> >
> > I made it a non-default option of "-I", but asomers@ asked why it needed to be
> > optional.
> >
> > Basically, I made it optional because I felt the patch might still be buggy and not
> > handle some case of an exports file change that I missed.
> >
> > However, I can see the argument of making it non-optional (or optional but enabled
> > by default) so that sysadmins don't need to add "-I" to avoid long periods where the
> > nfsd threads are suspended.
> > If it is broken, the deamon would need to be restarted to do a full reload, but that
> > would also be the case if a sysadmin specified the "-I" option.
> >
> > So, the question is... "do you think this should be an option or just always enabled?".
> >
> > Thanks , rick
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