On Sun, 2021-12-19 at 18:15 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>
> > On Dec 18, 2021, at 8:38 PM, trondmy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > NFSv4 doesn't need rpcbind, so let's not refuse to start up just
> > because
> > the rpcbind registration failed.
>
> Commit 7e55b59b2f32 ("SUNRPC/NFSD: Support a new option for ignoring
> the result of svc_register") added vs_rpcb_optnl, which is already
> set for nfsd4_version4. Is that not adequate?
>
The other issue is that under certain circumstances, you may also want
to run NFSv3 without rpcbind support. For instance, when you have a
knfsd server instance running as a data server, there is typically no
need to run rpcbind.
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
