Steven,
Some inline comments:
Steven Schlansker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I'm hoping this is the right place to post to - I've just started
> using OpenSolaris and would like to use it as a ZFS/NFS server for
> some Linux/FreeBSD clients.
>
> I do apologize if I'm doing anything particularly dumb - I've cobbled
> this information from so many sources on the Internet that I hardly
> even know what's the right way to do anything anymore :-p
>
> I've set up all my ZFS filesystems (about 3000 of them - I made a
> separate one for each user as I've heard recommended) and I'm trying
> to share them all, using
>
> pfexec zfs set sharenfs=ro pool/dataset
>
> (the rest all inherit the sharenfs property)
>
> I then run
>
> pfexec zfs share -a
>
> and I check sharemgr:
>
> pnunez at coole:/etc/dfs$ pfexec sharemgr show -vp | head
> default nfs=()
> zfs
> zfs/cooler/linux nfs=() nfs:sys=(ro="*")
> /cooler/linux
> zfs/cooler/sodahome nfs=() nfs:sys=(ro="@10.1.1")
Just being nit picky, but they all aren't inheriting the share you had
above. I.e., you've got
a read-only share to the 10.1.1/24 subnet here.
> /cooler/sodahome
> /cooler/sodahome/Cameron589
> /cooler/sodahome/GnowAD
> /cooler/sodahome/RichLan
> /cooler/sodahome/ThomasEP
> ...(continues for thousands of lines)
>
> and watch the svc logs (with tail -f /var/svc/log/*)
>
> ==> /var/svc/log/network-nfs-server:default.log <==
> [ Apr 9 17:44:52 Enabled. ]
> [ Apr 9 17:44:52 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/nfs-server
> start"). ]
> No NFS filesystems are shared
> [ Apr 9 17:49:19 Method "start" exited with status 0. ]
> [ Apr 9 17:49:19 Stopping because service disabled. ]
> [ Apr 9 17:49:20 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/nfs-server
> stop 142"). ]
>
>
> NFS then proceeds to shut down.
> First question - why does NFS shut down immediately even though I have
> configured shares?
What do you get with:
svcs -xv svc:/network/nfs/server
You might look at this thread:
http://www.unix.com/sun-solaris/80574-nfs-service-offline-after-enabling.html
I'll do some more checking later ...
> Second question - is it normal for NFS to take a while five minutes to
> start up? It seems like it should be faster, even with a few thousand
> exports...
>
Look at http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/nfs_zfs.html for a
discussion on what is going on here. We have been working on it. :->
> Just for fun, i tried doing an export using
> pfexec share -F nfs -o ro /tmp
> and the same thing happened (nfs starts then shuts down)
Try removing the zfs shares and doing this again?
This would be good because it would eliminate the large number of shares
being a problem.
>
> /etc/dfs is:
> pnunez at cooler:/etc/dfs$ ls -lh
> total 2.5K
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 354 2008-11-19 23:43 dfstab
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89 2008-11-19 23:43 fstypes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-04-09 13:06 sharetab
I.e., nothing is shared here...
>
> DFStab has only the comments that come with it, fstypes has:
> nfs NFS Utilities
> autofs AUTOFS Utilities
> cachefs CACHEFS Utilities
> smbfs CIFS Utilities
>
>
> and sharetab is empty all the time.
>
>
> Thanks for any tips and/or pointers! I have searched around but
> either this isn't a normal problem or my google-fu is failing me today.
>
> Best,
> Steven Schlansker
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