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nfsd.service: Order after mxmount.service
Currently there is no order between nfsd.service and mxmount.service. If mxmount is slow (e.g. when file systems have to process their journals after a server crash), nfsd startup might execute `exportfs -ra` while the filesystems are not yet mounted, thereby exporting the unmounted mountpoints. This can result in mount failures on nfs clients or in "stale NFS handle" errors on clients, which had the filesystems mounted before the crash. mxmount.service uses `mxmount --noexport` so there is no reexport triggered, after the filesystems are mounted. nfsd.services executes additional `exportfs -ra` commands 10, 20 and 30 seconds after the nfsd startup, but 30 seconds might not be enough time to mount all filesystems after the crash of a fileserver. These errors can persist. They are partly resolved by a manual `exportfs -ra` after a longer time, making the file systems available for mounting. However, the "stale NFS handle" problem might still be visible on clients which picked up the now covered inodes of the mountpoints. Order nfsd.service after mxmount.service so that we don't export the mountpoints.
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