linux-kernel - Re: Questions and problems with NFS4

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Message-ID: <20100728171429.GA19362@fieldses.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:14:29 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Bian Naimeng <biannm@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	J.A. � <jamagallon@....com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions and problems with NFS4

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:28:12AM +0800, Bian Naimeng wrote:
>     As i see, there's no way to disabe nlockmgr, it's start by lockd,
>     and lockd will be up when we start nfsd. It's always work until the
>     last nfsd thread stop.

Some day we should probably modify the server to turn off lockd in the
v4-only case.  For now we don't do that.

It should be fine to firewall off lockd if you only care about NFSv4.

--b.
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