Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: in-kernel rpc.statd | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:11:55 -0400 |
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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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