linux-kernel - Re: in-kernel rpc.statd

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Date:	Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:11:55 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Christian Guggenberger 
	<christian.guggenberger@...sik.uni-regensburg.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: in-kernel rpc.statd

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 23:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >I'd like to ask if someone is maintaining a patchset, that implements
> >the in-kernel rpc.statd (as found in SuSE kernels). I tried to fiddle
> >some patches of Suse-10.1 into 2.6.17, but failed, unfortunately.
> 
> Hm. I do not have a rpc.statd userspace program nor kernel daemon (running 
> on 2.6.17-vanilla). Yet everything is working. Is there a specific need for 
> statd?

Yes. Locking over NFSv2/v3 won't work without it.

That said, there is no reason why we need an rpc.statd in the kernel
when the nfs-utils package already provides one that works fine in
userland.

Cheers,
  Trond


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