Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53120 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751175AbeAJR0L (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:26:11 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add server-side support for junctions to nfs-utils To: Bruce Fields Cc: Chuck Lever , Linux NFS Mailing List 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> <20180110171704.GB26882@fieldses.org> From: Steve Dickson Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:26:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180110171704.GB26882@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/10/2018 12:17 PM, Bruce Fields wrote: > 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. Understood.... I guess I'm looking for a way to replace it with a command the kernel can call to only do v4 stuff. Would something like that make sense? > Is it trying to register with rpcbind in the case it's called > with -N2 -N3? That would be a bug. Looking at the code... probably not... steved. > > --b. >