From: "Talpey, Thomas" Subject: Re: rpc.statd in /sbin or /usr/sbin ?? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:10:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17917.58341.502839.29524@notabene.brown> <200703190924.03153.olaf.kirch@oracle.com> <45FE8782.5020001@RedHat.com> <17922.4151.996812.925495@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: "'nfs@lists.sourceforge.net'" To: Neil Brown Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HUM7i-0000vl-Ux for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:10:31 -0700 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HUM7k-0005cN-03 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:10:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: <17922.4151.996812.925495@notabene.brown> References: <17917.58341.502839.29524@notabene.brown> <200703190924.03153.olaf.kirch@oracle.com> <45FE8782.5020001@RedHat.com> <17922.4151.996812.925495@notabene.brown> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net At 01:12 AM 3/22/2007, Neil Brown wrote: >So how about this: In a similar way that we now try to start statd if >'nolock' is not set, we could set 'nolock' if we fail to start statd >(and it isn't already running). What do people think of that? Gack. At worst, the mount should fail, instead of silently changing the mount to one which may break application semantics! This would change the default behavior in a way the admin couldn't override. Besides, what's to say statd won't die later? Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs