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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 13, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problematic to enable when the file system is exported via NFS, because the NFS server holds the mount point open.


It would be nice if we could somehow tell the NFS-server to disable an NFS export, and release it, so that it can be unmounted on the NFS server. The only way I've found to do this currently, is to remove it as an NFS export (mmnfs export remove), but that can be problematic to do when there are many complex export definitions.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 13, 2024

    The use case here was that we needed to run mmfsck on one of the file systems exported via NFS, but still keep the NFS service open for other file systems. 

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