[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which OI service cleans up hidden NFS files?

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 5:46 PM Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 15:39, Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The other day my OI machine emailed (thank Peter Tribble, *et al*, who
> > helped me get that set up) me this error:
> >
> > find: cannot open /znapzend/DellOptiPlex390MT/ROOT/openindiana: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > I did some searching about the error message and found this Solaris
> > documentation page
> > <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61004/gqmry.html> about
> > removing hidden NFS files. It says that the above error is due to
> something
> > called nfsfind, but that nfsfind should be superseded by a service called
> > svc:/network/nfs/cleanup.
>
> We don't have a periodic execution mode for SMF like Oracle Solaris.
> The NFS cleanup task is run from the default root crontab:
>
>
> http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/Adm/root?r=fd324b96#30
>
> > How do I fix this error? Disabling the crontab job that throws it is an
> > option, but since the crontab job cleans up stale NFS files I don't think
> > that's a good idea. Would I share rpool1's child datasets via NFS
> > specifically fix it?
>
> I'm not sure exactly but it seems like nfsfind is a pretty basic shell
> script that may not have both its arms completely around the problem.
> It'd be good to get an illumos bug logged with the issue you've
> described, including the sequence of ZFS/NFS operations you've used to
> get the system into this state so that whatever the fix is can be
> tested well.
>
Thanks for the quick reply. I actually don't think it's an OI bug. More
details in a bit.

>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Joshua M. Clulow
> http://blog.sysmgr.org
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