Re: Massive NFS problems on large cluster with large number of mounts

Trond Myklebust
2008-07-17T15:35:13Z

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 10:47 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I tend to agree. The rpcbind client (at least) does specifically
> require a privileged port, so a large min/max port range would be out
> of the question for those rpc_clients.

'portmap' does indeed appear to check for privileged ports, but I can't
see any such checks in the rpcbind code.