From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mountd: fix crossmnt options in v2/v3 case Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:30:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4B95423F.6070805@oracle.com> References: <20100307200607.GA13006@fieldses.org> <1267992481-13332-1-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu> <1267992481-13332-2-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu> <1267992481-13332-3-git-send-email-bfields@citi.umich.edu> <20100308082516.260e5f70@notabene.brown> <20100307215826.GA14104@fieldses.org> <20100308101014.14e635b2@notabene.brown> <20100308182148.GB1675@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: Neil Brown , Steve Dickson , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:56782 "EHLO rcsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751136Ab0CHScl (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:32:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100308182148.GB1675@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/08/2010 01:21 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Occasionally we seem to hear from a security-conscious administrator > who's running v4-only and is irritated that they have to firewall off > mountd instead of just being able to kill it entirely. The latter might > reassure them, I suppose. I think Jeff had the idea of having mountd simply not set up its RPC listeners in that case. That looks easy to do. -- chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com