Re: in-kernel rpc.statd

[Trond Myklebust]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 23:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >I'd like to ask if someone is maintaining a patchset, that implements
> >the in-kernel rpc.statd (as found in SuSE kernels). I tried to fiddle
> >some patches of Suse-10.1 into 2.6.17, but failed, unfortunately.
> 
> Hm. I do not have a rpc.statd userspace program nor kernel daemon (running 
> on 2.6.17-vanilla). Yet everything is working. Is there a specific need for 
> statd?

Yes. Locking over NFSv2/v3 won't work without it.

That said, there is no reason why we need an rpc.statd in the kernel
when the nfs-utils package already provides one that works fine in
userland.

Cheers,
  Trond


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