From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: RFC - remove rquotad from nfs-utils for 1.1.0.
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 08:08:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463F16A7.8070703@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17982.32811.860687.644860@notabene.brown>
Neil Brown wrote:
> It appears that both "nfs-utils" and "quota" have an implementation of
> rquotad.
>
> This is not a good thing as inevitably one will get maintained and the
> other not.
>
> It appears that the one in nfs-utils is not being maintained. A quick
> look shows that it ignores anything other than ext2 or ext3. This
> suggests that no one has seriously used it for quite a long time.
>
> I am in favour of removing it from nfs-utils for 1.1.0. I note that
> neither SuSE or Debian use it (they both use the version from the
> quota package) I suspect other distros do that same.
In RHEL and FC, we also use the rpc.rquotad from the quota package
although the nfs-utils initscript still starts the daemon which
may or may not be a good idea... But I see no harm in removing it..
>
> Can I get someone to second my nomination?
I seconded it!
steved.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-07 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 1:26 RFC - remove rquotad from nfs-utils for 1.1.0 Neil Brown
2007-05-07 11:58 ` Jeff Layton
2007-05-07 12:08 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2007-05-08 5:11 ` Neil Brown
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