From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Christian Guggenberger
<christian.guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: in-kernel rpc.statd
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:11:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157317915.5587.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609032255010.6844@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 23:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >I'd like to ask if someone is maintaining a patchset, that implements
> >the in-kernel rpc.statd (as found in SuSE kernels). I tried to fiddle
> >some patches of Suse-10.1 into 2.6.17, but failed, unfortunately.
>
> Hm. I do not have a rpc.statd userspace program nor kernel daemon (running
> on 2.6.17-vanilla). Yet everything is working. Is there a specific need for
> statd?
Yes. Locking over NFSv2/v3 won't work without it.
That said, there is no reason why we need an rpc.statd in the kernel
when the nfs-utils package already provides one that works fine in
userland.
Cheers,
Trond
--
VGER BF report: H 2.2074e-05
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-03 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-03 18:00 in-kernel rpc.statd Christian Guggenberger
2006-09-03 21:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-03 21:11 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-09-04 8:09 ` Christian Guggenberger
2006-09-03 21:55 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-09-03 22:52 ` Neil Brown
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