Re: Typo in Redhat 8/9 nfs start/stop script

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>]

pwitting@Cyveillance.com wrote:

>You may want to do more than that. RH9 is using 2.4.20 kernel, which by my
>understanding resets the values to what I thinks is reasonable. For details
>on how 2.4.20 calculates queue sizes, see this earlier post by Neil Brown:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4229482
>
>But the gist is, there is no longer any need for the startup script to reset
>these values unless RH has disabled this feature of the kernel nfs code. 
>
Good point... That QS stuff probably should be removed...

>Secondly, it might be wise to automatically install a /etc/sysconfig/nfs
>file. The script reads this file, but there's no default included, only be
>reading and understanding the script would a user find out that this is now
>the preferred way to change the thread count.
>
I kinda like it the way it is.... I don't want to make it too easy for 
people to
shoot themselves in the foot.... :-)  Making people read/understand the 
script
before changing it seems to me like a good idea...

>Finally, why not release an erratum that corrects the problem instead of
>forcing any upgrade to RH10? It would be nice if I didn't have to add
>functions to my Kickstart post-install script to correct this problem, and
>instead could just upgrade the RPM in my install directory.
>
You don't have to upgrade the RH10 to get these changes... just
upgrade the nfs-utils package...

SteveD.



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