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Re: deprecated server packages in lenny?



> 
> [Daniel Baumann]
> > although probably almost everyone already does, it's finally time to
> > drop nfs-user-server (nfs-kernel-server has got support for nohide).
> 
> When are host netgroups expanded by nfs-kernel-server?  I had the
> impression that only the user space server would expand the host
> netgroups used to control NFS exports when a mount request arrive,
> while the kernel NFS server would expand them when the exportfs call
> was done.  The latter do not work well for netgroups with changes done
> after the exportfs call.
> 
> I use the user space NFS server to make sure netgroups are expanded
> when the mounting happen, and not during boot of the server.
> 

My experience says that it is expanded at the time of the mount request (I keep
my netgroup entries in LDAP and I never had to do an extra exportfs call after
changing entries).

Best,
Michael

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