Add boolean variable to control whether or not to create the director…

…y path exported by the NFS server.

README.md

@@ -143,10 +143,12 @@ This will mount /data on client in /share/data.
     }
     # ensure is passed to mount, which will make the client not mount it
     # the directory automatically, just add it to fstab
+    # The directory on the NFS server is not created automatically.
     nfs::server::export { '/media_library':
-      ensure  => 'present',
+      ensure     => 'present',
       nfstag     => 'media',
-      clients => '10.0.0.0/24(rw,insecure,async,no_root_squash) localhost(rw)',
+      clients    => '10.0.0.0/24(rw,insecure,async,no_root_squash) localhost(rw)',
+      create_dir => false,
     }
   }
 

manifests/functions/create_export.pp

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 # [*ensure*]
 #   String. Sets if enabled or not.
 #
+# [*create_dir*]
+#   Boolean.  Create the directory to be exported.
+#
 # [*owner*]
 #   String. Sets the owner of the exported directory.
 #
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@
 define nfs::functions::create_export (
   $clients,
   $ensure = 'present',
+  Boolean $create_dir = true,
   $owner  = undef,
   $group  = undef,
   $mode   = undef,
@@ -49,7 +53,9 @@
       content => $line,
     }
 
-    unless defined(File[$name]) {
+    # Create the directory path only if a File resource isn't
+    # defined previously AND the $create_dir boolean is true.
+    unless defined(File[$name]) and $create_dir {
       filepath { $name:
         ensure => present,
         owner  => $owner,