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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] statd: Decouple statd's state directory from the NFS
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:03:40AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> To allow greater flexibility to where statd's state is kept,
> statd's state path can now be decoupled from the normal
> NFS state directory.
> 
> In configure.ac, the NSM_STATD_PATH definition will now define
> the path to where the state information is kept. The default
> value, /var/lib/nfs, can be redefined with the --with-statdpath
> flag.

What is thje rationale for this?  And who would want to move it at
compile time, not at run time?