Why are manually created NFS exports deleted when package 'nfs-utils' is updated?

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Issue

  • Why NFS exports that have been added manually by exportfs and that are not present in /etc/exports are deleted when updating nfs-utils package in the NFS server?
# exportfs -o rw,async,no_root_squash *:/usr/sap/transSID
# exportfs
/usr/sap/transSID
        <world>
# yum update -y nfs-utils > /dev/null
# exportfs
#

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with nfs-utils package version 1.2.3-54.el6 or earlier.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with nfs-utils package version 1.3.0-0.21.el7 or earlier.
  • NFS exports added manually by running exportfs command (not present in /etc/exports).

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