Adding a -mapall option to an entry in /etc/exports doesn't seem to have any effect, even when restarting the nfs server and mountds. Only after rebooting the server the change comes into effect. It is nonsensical that a change of nfsd export attributes requires a system reboot, instead of just an nfs server restart. How-To-Repeat: I have the following line in /etc/exports: /usr -mapall=mkb:mkb -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 Before that, I already exported it without the mapall directive. Mounting on clients worked in both cases but after adding the mapall directive, no remapping was done. I also tried with numerical ids, without groups, and various permutations thereof. I restarted nfsd with /etc/rc.d/nfsd restart, /etc/rc.d/mountd restart, and even stopped and started the servers manually. The filesystem was unmounted on the client during restarts. I noticed that nfsiod wasn't affected by these restarts.
Hi, I noticed exactly the same problem. But I have a simple workaround. After modifying /etc/exports, just do the old way: kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/mountd.pid` Perhaps mountd's restart script is broken? Hope that helps, Stephane
The command "/etc/rc.d/mountd reload" seems to work and posts a SIGHUP to the mountd daemon, which makes it reload /etc/exports. I have no idea if the 5.3 shell scripts were busted, but I am closing this PR.