From: Ondrej Valousek <webserv@s3group.cz>
Subject: Re: why does each NFS mount have (at least) 2 rpc_clnt's ?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:26:37 +0200
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Hi Trond,

Does it have anything to do with the situation when we want an the same 
filesystem to be mounted twice somewhere else with a different flags? 
(i.e. RO/RW for example)
If yes, I remember some discussion about it in the past (the above was 
not possible).
Thanks,

Ondrej
> Look again at nfs_init_server_rpcclient(). The pseudoflavour is not the
> only thing that is changed. We also change the soft flag and the timeout
> properties of the server->client.
>
> The point is that users sometimes want to specify per-mountpoint
> transport properties, and so we try to give them that possibility, while
> at the same time sharing sockets/rdma connections.
>
> Cheers
>   Trond
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