On Feb 20, 2014, at 5:11 AM, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:36, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There are a number of NFS-related setting that currently must be set
>> by writing to various files under /proc.
>> This is a bit clumsy, particularly for systemd unit files.
>>
>> So this series adds options to a number of commands where relevant.
>>
>> The first two (rdma, and nfsv4{grace,lease}time) I am quite comfortable with.
>> The third (nlm grace time) I think is probably right but if someone can argue
>> an alternate approach I'm unlikely to resist.
>> The fourth is .... uhm. You better look yourself.
>>
>> Part of me thinks that nlm port numbers should be set in /etc/sysctl.conf (or sysctl.d)
>> and /etc/modprobe.d should have something like
>>
>> install lockd sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/lockd
>>
>> but last time I tried that it broke "modprobe --show-depends".
>> Also it is awkward to get setting from /etc/sysconfig/nfs into /etc/sysctl.d/lockd
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Why not just do most of this at module load time with something like "modprobe lockd lockd.nlm_grace_period=<nsecs> lockd.nlm_tcpport=<portnr> …”?
> Better yet, add/edit appropriate entries in /etc/modprobe.conf.d at system setup time.
If we’re setting configuration options in a file in /etc, maybe we’d be better off if these daemons each had their own .conf files.
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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
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