From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Debian, SIGPIPE, "libnfsidmap", and init.d vs. umount
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:34:47 +1100
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To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
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On Saturday December 4, chip@pobox.com wrote:
> Debian needs a bugfix release of nfs-utils, because of the SIGPIPE
> bug.  This being my job, I figured I could grab the HEAD version of
> nfs-utils.  And since the Debian sarge release is coming up soon (no,
> really), I hoped I'd find something unlikely to crash; instead I'm
> having difficulty with the build.

I use "./configure --disable-nfsv4 --disable-gss"  but you might not
want to...

> 
> I gather that "libnfsidmap" is what I'll find in:
> 
>   http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libnfsidmap/
> 
> Is there some reason this hasn't been made part of Debian already,
> seeing as how it already contains Debian build infrastructure?

Probably just the lack of a certified debian developer to do it, but
I'll let Bruce Fields answer further..

> 
> Also, is it a bug or a feature that the NFS startup scripts know how
> to mount special-purpose filesystems, but not unmount them?

A feature(?).

There is a need to mount, but no need to unmount.

It is a lot like there being a "modprobe" but no "rmmod".

NeilBrown


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