Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add server-side support for junctions to nfs-utils

[Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:26:10PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
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> On 01/10/2018 12:17 PM, Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:13:39PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
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> >>
> >> On 01/09/2018 02:36 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >>>
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> >>>> On Jan 9, 2018, at 2:21 PM, bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for doing this!  I may not get the chance to do a real review,
> >>>> but I'm in favor of the basic idea.
> >>>
> >>> How do you feel about building support for junctions into mountd,
> >>> and getting rid of the libnfsjunct DLL ?
> >> I would rather not put new functionality in daemons that needs rpcbind.
> >> With the idea of, someday, having clean v4-only configuration
> >> (aka no mountd, statd, or lockd).  
> > 
> > rpc.mountd is used by v4 for a lot of stuff already, so it's not going
> > away.  
> Understood.... I guess I'm looking for a way to replace it with
> a command the kernel can call to only do v4 stuff.
> Would something like that make sense?

It would be a fair amount of work and I don't think there's a strong
reason to do it.

rpc.mountd -N2 -N3 should do what we want.

--b.

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> > Is it trying to register with rpcbind in the case it's called
> > with -N2 -N3?  That would be a bug.
> Looking at the code... probably not... 
> 
> steved.
> > 
> > --b.
> >