On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:41:53PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: > > > 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? I think it's at most an idea to keep in the back of our minds in case it looks useful some day--not a todo we should schedule. --b. -- 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
