Re: [PATCH] rpc.nfsd: mount up nfsdfs is it doesn't appear to be mounted yet (try #2)

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:41:53PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/02/2010 10:25 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:04:19AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >> Neil's patches are now in upstream nfs-utils.  You can disable all of
> >> the network listeners with command line options on mountd.
> >>
> >> It's been said that people complain that they don't like running
> >> rpc.mountd on NFSv4-only servers.  I'm not sure why that's a problem
> >> we have to fix with a code change.  Better documentation, better
> >> automatic configuration detection in the NFS start-up scripts, or
> >> simply renaming rpc.mountd could solve this issue without the need for
> >> rip-and-replace of well-tested code.
> I think a lot of the problems come from people having to open up 
> their firewalls and such... basically security issues..  was well 
> as having "extra" daemons stealing cpu cycles... 
> 
> > 
> > Yeah, I've suggested a separate upcall-handling daemon before, but agree
> > that for now we should leave well enough alone.
> What would be the deciding factor to start this work? Maybe when
> Trond done splitting up kernel code into separate version modules? 

I think it's at most an idea to keep in the back of our minds in case it
looks useful some day--not a todo we should schedule.

--b.