From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:12:11 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] rpcbind & portmap and nfs extra hints. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140701201211.7c84f1c3@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Sagaert Johan, On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:08:00 +0200, Sagaert Johan wrote: > It seems you don't need portmap or rpcbind if you mount an nfs share with the -o onlock option. > Without the -o nolock you need some rpc locking system like portmap or rpcbind. > > Should this info be put somewhere in the help of the menu options ? I'm not really sure where it would belong to. We could indicate that in the portmap and rpcbind help text, but it wouldn't help users trying to do NFS mounts and not knowing about portmap/rpcbind. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com