From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:25:53 +1100 Message-ID: <18366.5777.25957.73691@notabene.brown> References: <47BCA119.2030404@foo-lounge.de> <18364.64328.189954.417159@notabene.brown> <47BD5DFA.8080200@foo-lounge.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Timo Reimann Return-path: Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56508 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758454AbYBVAZr (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:25:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: message from Timo Reimann on Thursday February 21 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday February 21, mailinglist-d4LLFNs4DFRA7UZ8SB9NFg@public.gmane.org wrote: > > > > You could always build your own nfs-utils and configure with > > --without-uuid. > > > > Not an ideal solution... > > What would be the downside of that solution? I suppose NFS would keep on > working even if I disabled that switch, but you gave the impression > there was some (major) drawback. > The fact that you have to compile your own tools rather than just use what the distro provides is always a bit of a bore. Also, if you change the server to stop using UUIDs, then any clients which have the filesystem mounted will need to remount as the old mount will become stale. So it isn't a major problem, but nor is it an ideal solution. NeilBrown