From: "Phil Endecott" Subject: Re: Make sm-notify faster if there are no servers to notify Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:30:03 +0000 Message-ID: <1225301403729@dmwebmail.dmwebmail.chezphil.org> References: <20081029171841.GC31936@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" Cc: To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from japan.chezphil.org ([77.240.5.4]:3493 "EHLO japan.chezphil.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752841AbYJ2RaH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:30:07 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chezphil.org) by japan.chezphil.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KvErt-0003qe-2p for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:30:05 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20081029171841.GC31936@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:13:20AM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: >> Dear Experts, >> >> sm-notify was taking a long time while my laptop booted. This was odd because I >> use NFS only rarely - via autofs - on that machine, and sm-notify actually has >> no-one to notify most of the time. So I have patched it as follows. Is this a >> legitimate thing to do? > > It looks like your patch was committed to nfs-utils a couple weeks ago: > see c8d18e26d2a53d9036a32c2dafebccaf4ce1634d from > > git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils > > --b. How curious. I guess someone saw my Debian bug report. No mention of it on this list as far as I can see though. I presume from this that it is considered a safe thing to do. Phil.