ok, what about statd? can I leave it out of userspace startup too
(/usr/sbin/rpc.statd) or not?
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == 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 ok, my conclusion is - /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd is obsolete (why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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