RE: knfsd
I am running linux clients. Do I still need to install this patch? Any ideas
when the patch will make it into 2.2.x kernels?
Rgds, Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.H.M. Dassen [mailto:jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl]
> Sent: 02 June 1999 12:01
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: knfsd
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:19:08 +0100, Andrew Chittenden wrote:
> > Be warned: the kernel nfs server is not bug free. I've reported the
> > problem below to the kernel people a long time ago but have
> received no
> > acknowledgement. Perhaps it got lost down a black hole.
>
> That may well be true. I'm not following linux-kernel, so I'm
> going by LWN
> for this one:
>
> Quoting from http://lwn.net/1999/0513/a/knfsd.html :
> }Subject: knfsd 1.3a is released.
> }To: nfs-devel@ftp.kernel.org (Linux NFS)
> }Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 18:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
> }From: hjl@varesearch.com (H.J. Lu)
> }
> }This is the Linux kernel NFS daemon 1.3a. It is based on linux-nfs
> }0.4.22. It is tested on Linux/alpha and Linux/x86 running
> glibc 2.0.7.
> }
> }WARNING: The NFS servers in Linux 2.2 to 2.2.7 are not
> compatible with
> }other NFS client implemenations. If you plan to use Linux 2.2.x as an
> }NFS server for non-Linux NFS clients, you should apply the patches
> }enlosed here.
> }
> }I made my knfsd package available only because I use it and
> noone else
> }seems to maintain it. But I don't have much time to really
> work on it.
> [snip]
>
> Ray
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