Re: NFSCTL_LOCKD (0x10000) unimplemented? (2.4.0-test5-pre4)

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 08:23:58 EST


trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no said:
> That's right. The rpc.lockd was a hack to allow NFSroot to mount the
> root partition with locking enabled, but deferring the startup of the
> lockd daemon. It was decided to leave it out of the 2.3.x/2.4.x tree.

In the certain knowledge that anyone with NFSroot wouldn't be silly enough
to require locking to work correctly? Or is there an alternative?

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dwmw2

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