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. -- 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
