Return-Path: Received: from fieldses.org ([173.255.197.46]:39056 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965876AbeAJRRF (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:17:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:17:04 -0500 From: Bruce Fields To: Steve Dickson Cc: Chuck Lever , Linux NFS Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add server-side support for junctions to nfs-utils Message-ID: <20180110171704.GB26882@fieldses.org> References: <20180108213356.20133.54161.stgit@manet.1015granger.net> <20180109192100.GB18087@fieldses.org> <492B1883-83EE-40AF-AA8C-1B797D842E5E@oracle.com> <01acd06d-98d4-c6ff-5ef1-b6edbb447405@RedHat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <01acd06d-98d4-c6ff-5ef1-b6edbb447405@RedHat.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:13:39PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > > > On 01/09/2018 02:36 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > > > > > >> On Jan 9, 2018, at 2:21 PM, bfields@fieldses.org wrote: > >> > >> Thanks for doing this! I may not get the chance to do a real review, > >> but I'm in favor of the basic idea. > > > > How do you feel about building support for junctions into mountd, > > and getting rid of the libnfsjunct DLL ? > I would rather not put new functionality in daemons that needs rpcbind. > With the idea of, someday, having clean v4-only configuration > (aka no mountd, statd, or lockd). rpc.mountd is used by v4 for a lot of stuff already, so it's not going away. Is it trying to register with rpcbind in the case it's called with -N2 -N3? That would be a bug. --b.