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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:00:16 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sbin/mountd mountd.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970401165718.4064A-100000@kipper.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704011456.AAA25683@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >Probably this should be named vfs.nfs.privport.  Possibly, since the
> >sysctl refers only to the NFS server, which isn't a VFS, the variable
> >shouldn't be in the vfs tree at all.  Maybe kern.nfs.privport.  That would
> >mean renaming vfs.nfs.async, since that is a server-only variable too.
> 
> What about vfs.nfs.defect and vfs.nfs.diskless*?  One of the advantages of
> hanging them all off vfs is that they used to work right automagically
> for LKMs.  This is broken now that sysctl initialization is done too
> statically using linker sets.

Only vfs.nfs.defect really affects the operation of the filesystem.  You
are right about the sysctl initialisation being bogus though.  I want to
be able to add and remove new sysctls dynamically from loadable modules.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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