Adding dependency on mountlate to mountd

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 22:12:32 UTC 2012


On 15 December 2012 20:09, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: Chris Rees On 15 Dec 2012 09:14, "Konstantin Belousov"
>> <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It cannot be fine. It breaks local NFS mounts.
>>
>> Given that we can't have both, but we can have nullfs and thus solve this
>> problem.
>> Is there something that local NFS mounts can do that nullfs won't?
>
>
> Using local NFS mounts seems a bit of strange thing to do, whats the
> reason for the requirement for these?
>
> Wouldnt nullfs mounts replace this requirement and perform better?

Here's an idea, how about in the mountlate script, we pass SIGHUP to
mountd at the end (or simply restart it, but that'd be slower)?  This
would cover your use case and Kostik's example too.

Chris


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