> > [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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