From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 18 08:22:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA25313 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 08:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (root@mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25279 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:22:11 GMT (envelope-from dswartz@druber.com) Received: from manticore (manticore.druber.com [207.180.95.108]) by mail.kersur.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10821; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 11:23:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980418112159.00929940@mail.kersur.net> X-Sender: druber@mail.kersur.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 11:21:59 -0400 To: Jens Schweikhardt From: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: option NFS -- why would I want it? Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804181457.QAA12277@obsidian.noc.dfn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 04:57 PM 4/18/98 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > >hello, world\n > >just out of curiosity: when I compile a kernel with option NFS the >size increases by 250k (on an i486, 2.2.5R): > >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 886718 Apr 16 14:25 kernel >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1125987 Apr 16 13:14 kernel+NFS > >However, even without option NFS in the kernel, I can use all >NFS stuff, like mounting nfs file systems, use the automounter >and so on. The machine works both as nfs server and client. > >I do think that 'option NFS' is there for a reason. The only reason >I can think of right now is that I need nfs in the kernel if the >machine is diskless. Is there another catch? Not that I know of. You are binding NFS into the kernel. If you don't do this, any NFS operations will load the LKM for NFS transparently, so as far I know, there's no compelling reason except diskless operation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message