From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: statd for NFSv4 does not create file Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:52:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1121370760.8049.197.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <20050714125536.788.qmail@web51609.mail.yahoo.com> <1121347282.8202.49.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1121368645.10126.193.camel@seki.nac.uci.edu> <1121369838.8049.185.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: mehta kiran , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, steved@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Dt9lS-0007wu-E6 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:52:58 -0700 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16] ident=7411) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Dt9lR-00023Y-61 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:52:58 -0700 To: Dan Stromberg In-Reply-To: <1121369838.8049.185.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: to den 14.07.2005 Klokka 15:37 (-0400) skreiv Trond Myklebust: > to den 14.07.2005 Klokka 12:17 (-0700) skreiv Dan Stromberg: > > > An NFSv4 client has no use for statd. The NFSv4 protocol has its own > > > methods for tracking client and server reboots. > > > > lockd too, I hope? > > Yes. Lockd is gone too. > > The only daemons you need to run on a client in order to get NFSv4 > working are > > - idmapd (for translating names/groups <-> uid/gid) > - rpc.gssd (only if you are using RPCSEC_GSS) Oops. I forgot... You need to run the portmapper on the client too. The reason is that the v4 delegation code needs to set up a server for the callback channel, and the sunrpc code is still under the illusion that we want it to register every server with portmap. Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs