On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:56:29PM -0400, Walter Webb wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I changed the bootscript recently (4th April) after 'Crider' reported > > a problem with the sequence and provided a patch to correct it. Does > > that version not work for you ? > > > > ĸen > > > > > It would work for me; not because it's right. > For me, that is 'good enough'. If someone provides a patch, and another editor is able to test it, then it can be changed - I'm not willing to spend more time on this.
> First, the mount test was in the scripts long before kernel versions 3.x. > It distinguished 2.6 kernels from earlier ones that did not have > /proc/fs/nfsd. > > Comparing the sources of nfs-utils-1.2.5 with nfs-utils-1.1.4, I noticed > that > the later nfsd will attempt to mount /proc/fs/nfsd if it is not already > mounted. > The earlier one does not. Whether or not a separate mount is needed, > depends upon the nfs-utils version. > With LFS-7.0, nfs has only worked at all with 1.2 (BLFS went to 1.2.5 at the beginning of November but it took some time after that to get portmap replaced by rpcbind, and longer still to get the *server* working reliably (arguably, only with the recent bootscript change). If you are running an earlier version of LFS, or an earlier version of nfs-utils, I think you need the earlier bootscripts. I know Bruce has expressed a different view re earlier versions of LFS. > I have had problems with exports when rpc.mountd is started when > /proc/fs/nfsd has not already been mounted. With the older version of > nfs-utils, the crossmnt and nohide options do not work; with the newer > version, nothing is exported. > > Regardless of how /proc/fs/nfsd was mounted, the nfs-server stop function > will only unmount it if the umount command is explicitly executed. > What is/are the problem(s) if you stop the nfs server script and /proc/fs/nfsd is NOT unmounted ? ĸen\ -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
