>>>>> " " == Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:
> ok, my conclusion is - /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd is obsolete (why
> still in nfs-utils? maybe for those who still use old 2.2.x
> kernels...) and the stuff in fs/lockd/*.c just does the job,
> i.e. the lockd kernel thread.
> Is this correct?
That's right. The rpc.lockd was a hack to allow NFSroot to mount the
root partition with locking enabled, but deferring the startup of the
lockd daemon. It was decided to leave it out of the 2.3.x/2.4.x
tree.
Cheers,
Trond
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