Re: RFC: merging sm-notify and rpc.statd

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:39:47 Neil Brown wrote:
> sm-notify :
>    - is a 'client' for the "SM" protocol.
>    - must be run at boot time, and after that is not needed.
>
> statd :
>    - is a 'server' for the "SM" protocol.
>    - only needs to be running when either nfsd is running or an
>      nfs mount which supports locks is active

that last part -- any nfs mount with locks -- means that pretty much every nfs 
client out there needs it running.

sm-notify is pretty minuscule, so the overhead of having that run on a server 
is negligible, especially when combined with the already required statd.
-mike

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