Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk

[Timo Reimann <mailinglist-d4LLFNs4DFRA7UZ8SB9NFg@public.gmane.org>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday February 21, mailinglist-d4LLFNs4DFRA7UZ8SB9NFg@public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> You could always build your own nfs-utils and configure with
>>> --without-uuid.
>>>
>>> Not an ideal solution...
>> What would be the downside of that solution? I suppose NFS would keep on
>> working even if I disabled that switch, but you gave the impression
>> there was some (major) drawback.
>>
> 
> The fact that you have to compile your own tools rather than just use
> what the distro provides is always a bit of a bore.
> 
> Also, if you change the server to stop using UUIDs, then any clients
> which have the filesystem mounted will need to remount as the old
> mount will become stale.
> 
> So it isn't a major problem, but nor is it an ideal solution.

Is there a proper place to file a bug report for this issue? I'm lacking
the expertise to know whose responsibility it is, but I remember you
mentioned libblkid before.


--Timo