Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:42:10 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <jelischer@panzura.com> Subject: Re: make mountd's -S option the default Message-ID: <201603140442.u2E4gAG0074088@chez.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: <826673226.15831075.1457922047675.JavaMail.zimbra@uoguelph.ca>
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> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:20:47 -0400 (EDT) > From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> > To: FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> > Subject: make mountd's -S option the default > > Julian Elischer has volunteered to commit the patches that > make the -S option the default for mountd. > > Without this option, any reload of /etc/exports (which happens > whenever any file system is mounted on the server) can result in > error replies to NFS clients, due to the file system being temporarily > not exported. The only downside I can think of to using this option > is a delay observed by NFS clients when large /etc/exports files > are reloaded. (Since without the delay they can get error replies, > the delay seems preferable. > > There are several PR#s related to these error replies: > 9619, 131342, 206855 (and probably some others) > > If anyone has a problem with this change in default behaviour, > please email. > > rick I believe that putting in -S by default is long overdue. Kirk McKusick
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