Re: NFS proc entry

[Chris Friesen]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> På to , 15/04/2004 klokka 13:25, skreiv Fabian Frederick:

> > 	Do we have some /proc entry for realtime NFS access point report /
> > client like showmount does with RPC ?

> Exactly what possible justification would there be for putting something
> like that into the kernel?

I agree with you that it's kind of messy to put this in the kernel.

However, with the current setup filesystem monitoring deamons must fork 
off a child for each mount, since statfs() can block for many seconds if 
the server has gone away.


Chirs
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