On 3/27/06, Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:00:57PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > rpc.mountd creates a file called rmtab to /var/lib/nfs which is the standard > > place for the NFS state files. For rpc.statd, the state directory can be > > changed by the -P option. However, the mountd man page says: > > > > -P Ignored (compatibility with unfsd??). > > > > So it would seem that the state directory can't be changed at all. > > In 1.0.7-1, it no longer seems to do (it uses files in /proc instead). > However, why is this a problem? /var should be writable at any point anyhow. > Could you please elaborate on the actual problem here, and if 1.0.7-1 fixes > it for you, please close it?
In HA-NFS setups (see: http://linux-ha.org/HaNFS) changing the NFS state directory to a shared disk is useful (almost mandatory, even). Of course, usually this disk is not mounted on /var. Easy solution to this problem is to symlink /var/lib/nfs to a directory on the shared disk, but it would be nice (sort of) to be able to define the state directory in the configuration. I can't test the 1.0.7 version on my production system, but if statd really obeys the -P parameter for this version, then the documentation should be fixed and the bug closed. Regards, Teemu
