On Monday 02 November 2009 10:59:07 pm Peter Staubach wrote: > Hi. > > Here is a patch to modify the NFS server to register the NFS_ACL > services with the rpcbind daemon. This allows the client to > ping for the existence of the NFS_ACL support via commands such > as "rpcinfo -t <server> nfs_acl". > > This patch also modifies the NFS_ACL support so that responses > to version 2 NULLPROC requests can be made. > > The changelog for the patch which turned off this functionality > mentioned something about not registering the NFS_ACL as being > part of some tradition. I can't find this tradition and the > only other implementation which supports NFS_ACL does register > them with the rpcbind daemon. 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? Thanks, Andreas -- 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
