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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
Cc: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xprt sharing (was Re: xprt_bindresvport)
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:31:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041209113107.GE15055@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B74551.5040908@sun.com>

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:17:53PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote:
> This has been bugging me for a while.  The fact that we are limitting
> ourselves to a single nfs mount per port.  From what I can tell, Solaris
> shares the transports between nfs mounts from the same server and saves
> themselves a lot of trouble with running out of port numbers in doing so.

Shouldn't we allow NFS mounts to use non-privileged ports? Many
environments don't really care about the "security" provided by privileged
ports, but would be more than happy if they can run with a few hundred
NFS mounts

Olaf
-- 
Olaf Kirch     | Things that make Monday morning interesting, #2:
okir@suse.de   |        "We have 8,000 NFS mount points, why do we keep
---------------+ 	 running out of privileged ports?"


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-09 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08 14:33 xprt_bindresvport Lever, Charles
2004-12-08 18:17 ` [PATCH] xprt sharing (was Re: xprt_bindresvport) Mike Waychison
2004-12-09 11:31   ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2004-12-09 13:36     ` Trond Myklebust
2004-12-09 13:44       ` Olaf Kirch
2004-12-09 16:20         ` Trond Myklebust
2004-12-09 19:34     ` Dan Stromberg
2004-12-09 21:33       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-12-09 22:29         ` Dan Stromberg
2004-12-09 11:01 ` xprt_bindresvport Olaf Kirch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-08 19:08 [PATCH] xprt sharing (was Re: xprt_bindresvport) Lever, Charles
2004-12-08 21:58 ` Mike Waychison
2004-12-09 11:22 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-12-09 13:33   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-12-09 13:41     ` Olaf Kirch
2004-12-08 22:00 Lever, Charles
2004-12-09  8:54 Peter Åstrand
2004-12-09 11:14 ` Olaf Kirch
2004-12-09 14:03 Lever, Charles

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