From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 5 2:19:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F64537B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 02:19:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16iC2Q-0001zB-00 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:19:18 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16iC27-00019g-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:18:59 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:18:59 +0000 From: Ceri To: Tom Rhodes Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/35098: [PATCH] Handbook NFS stuff Message-ID: <20020305101859.GA4224@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri , Tom Rhodes , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <200203040710.g247A1Y75400@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020304092002.GA2321@submonkey.net> <3C839B52.3020206@pittgoth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C839B52.3020206@pittgoth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:05:38AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > How does "a minimial of one client" sound to you? I'm with Giorgos - "one or more" is better. After all, I'm not going to turn up on anyone's doorstep if they dare to set up a server and no clients, so we shouldn't make it sound as someone is going to ;) > >>nfsiod > > > >I've read the manual page, and I'm not really any the wiser here. > >nfsiod services async requests according to the manpage - what if i don't > >have > >any filesystems mounted async ? > >Is this the same thing as biod on Solaris ? > > Well would you want them? and I don't use Solaris, not for NFS anyways, > so I would have no clue what your talking about it you even mentioned > biod. If you want to reword that to help the Solaris boys please offer > an opinion as I'm at a loss. It looks like it is (from the biod manpage on an arcane version of SunOS) : biod starts nservers asynchronous block I/O daemons. This command is used on a NFS client to buffer cache handle read-ahead and write-behind. Whether we want to start saying "foo is the equivalent of bar on QuuxOS" is a question that will probably be answered in the negative - it was rather frustrating, however, to be referred to the manpage and find nothing more there, but that's not really your problem, I suppose; the manpage needs fixing too. > > >>+ information. The flag allows the > >>directories > >>+ below the specified filesystem to also be exported. > >> > > > >Um, no it doesn't. Not really. > >This reads as though failing to specify -alldirs will allow me to mount > >/home, but will not result in /home/setantae being exported. > >The -alldirs flag actually allows the directories below the specified > >filesystem to be used as the root of a mount point, i.e. using the line > >below will allow 10.0.0.[2-4] to mount /home/setantae from the server. > >Now try turning that into English :) > > I am trying to think of a better example, this one made me think for a > few moments ;) But the ``vision'' is approching ;) OK, but you know what I'm saying, right ? > >I'd rather see -maproot=root here (and everywhere else). > >Although that may cause problems interoperating with Plan9, where the > >superuser > >appears to be called "glenda", it doesn't make it look as though something > >is being "turned off". > > I can agree with this, although about the Plan9 interoperation problem, > that SHOULD be documented on their side. Most *nix versions use the > root user ;) Wizard. Thanks, Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message