Re: NFSCTL_LOCKD (0x10000) unimplemented? (2.4.0-test5-pre4)

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 07:46:03 EST


>>>>> " " == Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> writes:

> ok, what about statd? can I leave it out of userspace startup
> too (/usr/sbin/rpc.statd) or not?

Unfortunately not. The nature of lock monitoring means that rpc.statd
needs to write stuff (the address of either the server on which locks
are held or the clients which are holding locks) to permanent
storage. It would be a very bad candidate for a kernel-space
implementation.

Cheers,
  Trond

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