Hi Chuck, Replies below: On Fri, 30 May 2008, Chuck Lever wrote: > Do you still need to invoke the helper directly? I think this should work > with a straight mount command after 1.1.2, since the "-i" flag is no longer > necessary. Correct. I'll update this. > If it works, the "permanent" instructions in this documentation should use > "mount" not "mount.nfs," and specify the command line arguments in the right > order (doesn't mount like the "-o options" to come before the arguments?). We mount.nfs accepts either order, but I'll move the -o options before the other arguments to agree with the mount man page. > shouldn't encourage direct use of the helper subcommand if we can avoid it, > and it would allow admins to place rdma mounts in /etc/fstab and automounter > maps. > > In fact, since 1.1.2 is now available, why even mention 1.1.1 in the > instructions? It would nicely simplify the text if you start with 1.1.2, and > the scourge (or ridiculousness?) of the "-i" option need never be mentioned > again. > > Looking at other parts of nfs-rdma.txt: > > The instructions describing how to build nfs-utils are slightly misleading. > The "--disable-gss" and "--disable-nfsv4" options do not affect the mount > command -- the resulting mount.nfs executable still supports NFSv4. > > The true reason to specify these options on ./configure is to prevent > nfs-utils from building the idmapper and gssd executables, which you don't > need to replace if you are only installing a new mount.nfs command, and which > require that the build system have certain other packages installed. Thanks. I'll correct this. > You can simply extract the rebuilt mount.nfs command instead of installing the > whole package with > > $ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /path/to/your/mount.nfs For mount.nfs to be picked up automatically by mount, mount.nfs needs to be at /sbin/mount.nfs, correct? In the instructions, I'll recommend that the binary be copied as follows: $ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs > > The tcp_wrappers package is needed to build nfs-utils in any case, so it would > be helpful to mention that too. I'd like to leave that detail to the nfs-utils README. Does that sound reasonable? > It's worth mentioning that several distributions already ship with > 1.1.2, so on modern systems, this build step is probably not needed. > > Also, I would use a standard shell prompt in the examples (say, "$ " or "% ", > or "# " as necessary, instead of "> "), but that's just me. Good point. ">" is my shell prompt, so it looks natural to me. I'll change it to "$". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
