From: James Lentini Subject: Re: [PATCH] update mount.nfs example in NFS/RDMA documentation Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:30:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , Tom Tucker , Trond Myklebust , Thomas Talpey , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:19292 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752717AbYFBTai (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:30:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 30 May 2008, Chuck Lever wrote: > > In the instructions, I'll recommend > > that the binary be copied as follows: > > > > $ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs > > > > > The tcp_wrappers package is needed to build nfs-utils in any case, so it > > > would > > > be helpful to mention that too. > > > > I'd like to leave that detail to the nfs-utils README. Does that sound > > reasonable? > > If you're going to provide a blanket pointer to the nfs-utils README > for building it, and omit any specific instructions from > nfs-rdma.txt (aside from copying the mount.nfs executable), that > sounds reasonable. I'd like to provide a few hints about how to build nfs-utils, specifically the note on the --disable-gss and --disable-nfsv4 flags. We've had questions on this in the past. I'll add a note about tcp_wrappers.