Re: [PATCH v2] register NFS_ACL with rpcbind

[Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>]

Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:13:27 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>> I don't understand the reasoning behind .vs_hidden for NFS_ACL, hopefully
>> Olaf can clarify. NFS_ACL is the only user of .vs_hidden as far as I can
>> see though, so if this is changeg, shouldn't the entire commit bc5fea4
>> which introduced the flag be reverted?
> 
> I can't remember the details of that one. I do remember that this is
> based on someone's request who told me that we shouldn't register nfsacl
> with portmap. I didn't check myself whether Solaris did or did not do
> it at that time.
> 
> I have no issue with reverting that change, and removing the whole
> .vs_hidden kludge too.
> 

It seems that vs_hidden is used in 1 place outside of the NFS_ACL
server code.  It is used in the NFSv4 callback code.

I will look to see how difficult that might be to fix this spot
as well and then get rid of vs_hidden.

	Thanx...

		ps