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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>
To: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SGI 904217 (2/2): allow enabling TCP without recompile
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:00:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDE6748.7090404@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDD6D78.A8FE3262@melbourne.sgi.com>

Greg Banks wrote:

>These two patches Linux systems to be shipped with CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
>but TCP support disabled at runtime until the sysadmin edits the
>/etc/sysconfig/nfs file and restarts NFS.  The idea is that TCP
>support is still disabled by default, but can be enabled with less
>pain than currently is the case (we have customers who want to try
>it).
>  
>
Why disable it? Since UPD is still mountd's default transport..

>The second patch is for nfs-utils and adds a -t option to nfsd which
>uses the new nfsctl (added in the first patch) to enable specific
>transports, and the infrastructure to allow the sysadmin to specify
>it easily.  Default is to enable UDP only for compatibility.
>  
>
This seems a bit messy.... Why not just turn on TCP and have
nfsd listen on both types of transports?

SteveD.




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-16  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-15  8:14 [PATCH] SGI 904217 (2/2): allow enabling TCP without recompile Greg Banks
2003-12-16  2:00 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2003-12-16  2:16   ` Greg Banks

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