Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:55:21 +0200 | From | Olaf Kirch <> | Subject | Re: NFS hangs under 2.2.6 |
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On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:09:13PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > I must admit, I haven't yet found out why the sunrpc layer insists on > using the portmapper. In principle it should be unnecessary if the > correct port is passed down from 'mount' to the NFS layer: if the port > definition makes it through 'xprt_create_proto' to > 'rpc_create_client', portmapper use is disabled for the client.
The whole business of RPC upcalls to statd is a mess. It needs to be redone in a way that allows use of file locking without having to start portmap and statd first.
There's also some logic in the RPC layer that allows the client to `rebind' i.e. contact the server portmapper to get the current port number. That is used by the file locking code when it finds it's persistently stuck retransmitting packets.
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