From: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_NFSD_TCP actually impacts clients
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:29:13 -0700
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Cc: Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 08:38 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Chris-
> 
> On 6/29/06, Chris Abbey <cablnx@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > -config NFSD_TCP
> > -       bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
> > -       depends on NFSD
> > +config NFS_TCP
> > +       bool "Provide NFS services over TCP"
> 
> There's been plenty of user confusion in the past about server versus
> client TCP support, so I would prefer more precise wording here.  This
> new summary almost implies that the NFS client (not the lock manager)
> is affected too.  How about something more specific like:
> 
> "Provide NFS and NLM server over TCP support"
> 
> Also, the name of the config option might be confusing as well...
> "NFS_" is usually reserved for client-only.  I suggest NFSD_NLM_TCP.

The problem is that lockd also provides services to the NFS client, for
example the NLM_GRANTED rpc which goes from server to client to notify
the client of a granted blocking lock.

Frank Filz


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