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Re: nfs, nfsd (was: Unionmount: proxying the control port)


From: Sergiu Ivanov
Subject: Re: nfs, nfsd (was: Unionmount: proxying the control port)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:35:47 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hello,

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:56:33AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:18:58AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > For the sake of pushing the horizon of my knowledge, I'd like to ask
> > one more question: is nfs a kind of an interface to nfsd, the latter
> > being responsible for actually fetching the remote filesystems,
> > maintaining caches, etc., while nfs's role being to publish this as a
> > virtual filesystem?  (I'm asking because I was surprised when I found
> > out that there not only is nfs, but also nfsd.)
> 
> It's actually simpler: nfs is the NFS client (that is, used for importing
> / ``mounting'' remote NFS file systems locally) and nfsd is the Hurd's
> NFS server, which exports to other machines the local file system using
> the NFS protocol.
 
Aha, I see :-) Thank you for the explanation :-)
 
> Indeed both fsys_getfile and file_getfh are only used for
> exporting-via-NFS purposes -- you can safely ignore that for now.  (I
> don't know any details about that, but if I understand this correctly,
> the worst thing which not implementing them means is that a remote user
> (who is importing a Hurd machine's file system using NFS) won't be able
> to see any files served / translated by unionfs (and most of the other
> translators).)  That aside, I have never used nfsd and don't know of
> anyone who has (during the last years).  I do use nfs (as does Olaf, as
> he told), and it basically works.
 
I see; you use nfs for mounting network filesystems exported by
systems other than Hurd, right?

Regards,
scolobb




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