On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > >> mean we are still loading sendmail, isdn, nfslock, and all other legacy >> stuff in ten years time. >> > > Talking about the nfs (and related rpc daemons) I recently had a good > idea for those, some will hate it, but those are the people who so no to > anything looking like progress, so I say lets just ignore them. > > This idea is taken from some work I've done recently to stop the iscsi > related daemons from starting unnecessary be default, something which has > become relevant as the libvirt stuff drags in iscsi-initiator-utils on > very installation that has libvirt, of which there are quite a few. > > So the idea is to patch all the initscripts which currently only get > started by default for NFS, to as the first thing in their start method > grep for nfs in /etc/fstab and if that is not found exit quietly without > doing anything further. > > Then to make manual mounting of nfs exports not in fstab work properly, > the suggested fix is to patch mount to check if the necessary daemons are > running and if not start them. Since this will probably turn out to be > distro specific I think it would be best to have a checknfsdaemons shell > script in some standard location provided by the distro and let mount > call that before each nfs mount. (Oh the horror an additional entire fork > and exec on each nfs mount, hello people this is going over the network, > forget about the fork and exec cost, thank you). You are forgetting autofs in your scheme, my systems never have nfs in /etc/fstab but if nfs doesn't start the machines are useless. Why not let people do /sbin/chkconfig nfs on|off instead of trying to guess what they want. Kostas Georgiou -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
