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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 2019 11:21:42 +0200
From:      Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>
To:        hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is NFS still broken in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20190809092141.GA67645@home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <87v9v7nru4.fsf@toy.adminart.net>
References:  <87v9v7nru4.fsf@toy.adminart.net>

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On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 01:46:27AM +0200, hw wrote:
> Hi,
> 

Hello,

> according to [1], NFS in FreeBSD is broken, and I'm wondering if it
> still is.
> 

define "broken"? NFS is used in production here for years and works like
a charm. The only annoying issue was PR 205193 (as we use jails
extensively), but it has now been fixed.

> I need to export some directories rw and some ro with an /etc/exports
> like this:
> 
> 
> /b/tftpboot/FreeBSD/install -ro -maproot=root
> /p/default
> 

this is not a valid /etc/exports file, check man 5 exports

> 
> The "default" directory needs to be exported read-write.  That seems to
> be impossible with FreeBSD --- if that is really so, NFS is totally
> broken in FreeBSD.  To make it more strange, it worked as intended until
> I restarted the server.  NFS v4 doesn't seem to work at all.
> 

use something like:

V4: /someroot -sec=sys
/someroot/default -rw -network somehost -mask somenetmask


> This has cost me a whole day now :(

also, for a NFS V4 only server/client you could set:

vfs.nfsd.server_min_nfsvers=4
vfs.nfsd.server_max_nfsvers=4

> 
> 
> [1]: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/nfs-exports.35966/
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