On Tuesday 19 May 2009 18:39:47 Neil Brown wrote: > sm-notify : > - is a 'client' for the "SM" protocol. > - must be run at boot time, and after that is not needed. > > statd : > - is a 'server' for the "SM" protocol. > - only needs to be running when either nfsd is running or an > nfs mount which supports locks is active that last part -- any nfs mount with locks -- means that pretty much every nfs client out there needs it running. sm-notify is pretty minuscule, so the overhead of having that run on a server is negligible, especially when combined with the already required statd. -mike
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