From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 3 17:16:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60892299 for ; Fri, 3 May 2013 17:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mohan@nber.org) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [66.251.72.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB561260 for ; Fri, 3 May 2013 17:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [66.251.72.79]) by mail2.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r43HG3uP059768 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 3 May 2013 13:16:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mohan@nber.org) Received: from localhost (mohan@localhost) by mail2.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id r43HG3HT059765; Fri, 3 May 2013 13:16:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mohan@nber.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mail2.nber.org: mohan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 13:16:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mohan Ramanujan To: Daniel Feenberg Subject: Re: Restarting exports disturbs clients In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <5183A8BA.7040309@bananmonarki.se> <20130503161818.GK32659@physics.umn.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.39/RELEASE, bases: 20130503 #9873521, check: 20130503 clean Cc: Mohan Ramanujan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Graham Allan X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 17:16:06 -0000 Actually, changes to /etc/exports under FreeBSD take effect when you either kill -HUP mountd.pid or /etc/rc.d/mountd reload|restart on the nfs server, but both disrupt existing mounted shares on the nfs client. What we are looking for is an equivalent of exportfs -r under Linux. Is that available under FreeBSD? Thanks. -- mohan ------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 3 May 2013, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 May 2013, Graham Allan wrote: > >> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:08:26PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >>> 2013-05-03 12:49, Daniel Feenberg skrev: >>>> >>>> When we change the exportfs file on our FreeBSD 9.1 fileserver: >>>> >>>> kill -HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` >>> >>> That seems a bit harsh, try /etc/rc.d/nfsd restart or >>> /etc/nfsserver restart. >> >> Sending SIGHUP to mountd has always been the right way to have it reread >> the exports file - should really be much less disruptive than restarting >> the service. > > We have tried both and both disruptive NFS clients. > > dan feenberg > >> >> Graham >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >