Yes, but in our case we don't care. This is a dedicated server where we don't see any usage for NLM client. We just want to prevent the kernel from taking the port in case of some accidental NFS mount that ommitted 'nolock'.
-----Original Message----- From: Trond Myklebust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:27 PM To: Menny Hamburger Cc: Neil Brown; [email protected] Subject: RE: [PATCH] NLM program ID for user space NLM server On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:30 +0300, Menny Hamburger wrote: > The idea in the change was to be able to override NLM_PROGRAM with > another definition (from our slightly customized build system), so > that the kernel never tries to register port 100021. I repeat: The kernel _NEEDS_ to register RPC service 100021 on the client so that rpc.statd can find it and notify it of server reboots. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
