On 09/20/2011 11:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:03:40AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: >> To allow greater flexibility to where statd's state is kept, >> statd's state path can now be decoupled from the normal >> NFS state directory. >> >> In configure.ac, the NSM_STATD_PATH definition will now define >> the path to where the state information is kept. The default >> value, /var/lib/nfs, can be redefined with the --with-statdpath >> flag. > > What is thje rationale for this? And who would want to move it at > compile time, not at run time? It all has to do with statd not running as root... During the rpm installation, a state directory is created and the uid/gid are set to rpcuser id. When statd fires up, those uid/gids are obtained and used to set the process's uid/gid so the daemon does not run as root.. The default NFS state directory is /var/lib/nfs. Since other processes, like mountd and exportfs, read and write to that, we don't want to muck around with its ownership. So a statd directory is created and the ownership of that directory is mucked with. 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
