From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: RELEASE CANDIDATE - nfs-utils-1.1.0-rc1 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:35:29 +1000 Message-ID: <17936.16833.295258.406430@notabene.brown> References: <17931.15549.578071.112573@notabene.brown> <20070329084433.GA1627@sith.mimuw.edu.pl> <17931.34669.47062.146703@notabene.brown> <20070401121641.GB26681@janus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Jan Rekorajski To: Frank van Maarseveen Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HY9aD-00087s-Dy for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:35:37 -0700 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1HY9aE-0001nl-BR for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:35:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: message from Frank van Maarseveen on Sunday April 1 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 On Sunday April 1, frankvm@frankvm.com wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:31:25PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Hmm... good question. > > > > I think: > > > > - idmapd and gssd should be started before any nfs mount > > - idmapd and svcgssd should be started before nfsd > > - mountd should start before nfsd. > > At first that seems the logically correct order but suppose a client > succeeds in mounting something but issues NFS requests before nfsd got > started on the server? That shouldn't matter. The NFS server will not respond so the client will retry. Ofcourse if you have a soft mount it could get messy, but then soft mounts are always messy. > > where's the exportfs? Good point. exportfs should be run before mountd is started, and after nfsd filesystem is mounted. NeilBrown > > Consider a "sleep 30" at every point in the startup sequence and think > about what would go wrong. Also consider a dead-again server at every > point in the startup sequence. > > -- > Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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