Starting several NFS exports in parallel results in missing exports in exportfs in RHEL 5 or 6
Issue
- Using
exportfsto export a large number of NFS exports in parallel will result in some exports missing. - When a cluster service with an
<nfsclient>resource is starting while another<nfsclient>is stopping, the one being added may silently fail andexportfsdoesn't show it. - Just after starting an
<nfsclient>resource, its status check fails:
Nov 29 18:52:14 jrummy5-1 clurgmgrd: [20158]: <err> nfsclient:client-2 is missing!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6
- exporting NFS-shares through the
exportfscommand
- exporting NFS-shares through the
- RHEL 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
- Multiple services in
/etc/cluster/cluster.confcontaining<nfsclient>resources
- Multiple services in
- RHEL 5:
nfs-utilsprior to release1.0.9-66.el5 - RHEL 6:
nfs-utilsprior to release1.2.3-26.el6
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