package: nfs-utils severity: important justification: regression from bullseye with silent failure version: 1:2.6.2-4
Hi. I've noticed that since upgrading to bookworm the refer option in /etc/exports appears to be entirely ignored. Looking through the sources to exportd and support/export/cache.c, it looks like perhaps referals support in exports is keyed on --enable-junctions. I'm not entirely sure of that, but it looks like write_fsloc is only called in dump_to_cache if HAVE_JUNCTION_SUPPORT is enabled. I *think* write_fsloc is what writes out the referal location as well as any junction location. So, I *think* that as part of adding the junction support upstream has broken referals unless you enable junction support. That's kind of unfortunate for us because junction support comes with dependencies like libxml2 which are kind of a lot to swallow in nfs-utils. I'd appreciate help confirming my conclusions. * Are referals actually broken * Is there an easy way to get them back without junction support * how willing to turn on junction support are we in bookworm? In a bookworm backport?
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