From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpc.nfsd: mount up nfsdfs is it doesn't appear to be mounted yet (try #2)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:41:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7FD3D1.30601@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100902142501.GD13117@fieldses.org>
On 09/02/2010 10:25 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:04:19AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> Neil's patches are now in upstream nfs-utils. You can disable all of
>> the network listeners with command line options on mountd.
>>
>> It's been said that people complain that they don't like running
>> rpc.mountd on NFSv4-only servers. I'm not sure why that's a problem
>> we have to fix with a code change. Better documentation, better
>> automatic configuration detection in the NFS start-up scripts, or
>> simply renaming rpc.mountd could solve this issue without the need for
>> rip-and-replace of well-tested code.
I think a lot of the problems come from people having to open up
their firewalls and such... basically security issues.. was well
as having "extra" daemons stealing cpu cycles...
>
> Yeah, I've suggested a separate upcall-handling daemon before, but agree
> that for now we should leave well enough alone.
What would be the deciding factor to start this work? Maybe when
Trond done splitting up kernel code into separate version modules?
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-02 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-31 19:32 [PATCH] rpc.nfsd: mount up nfsdfs is it doesn't appear to be mounted yet (try #2) Jeff Layton
2010-09-01 20:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-01 20:56 ` Jeff Layton
2010-09-01 21:31 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-02 0:17 ` Jeff Layton
2010-09-02 1:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-02 11:29 ` Steve Dickson
2010-09-02 11:55 ` Jeff Layton
2010-09-02 14:04 ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-02 14:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-02 16:41 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2010-09-02 18:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-02 14:30 ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-14 13:23 ` Jeff Layton
2010-09-15 20:09 ` Steve Dickson
2010-09-15 22:31 ` Jeff Layton
2010-09-16 11:06 ` Steve Dickson
2010-09-16 11:32 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20100916073203.2c217bfc-xSBYVWDuneFaJnirhKH9O4GKTjYczspe@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-16 11:43 ` Steve Dickson
2010-09-16 12:30 ` Steve Dickson
2010-09-16 13:02 ` [PATCH] rpc.nfsd: mount up nfsdfs is it doesn't appear to be mounted yet (try #4) Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <4C921580.2050903-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-16 13:40 ` Jeff Layton
2010-09-16 21:32 ` Steve Dickson
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