From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 18 14:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04777 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04642 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:38:14 GMT (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from trojanhorse.pr.watson.org (trojanhorse.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.10]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA08596; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:37:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:37:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Scot Elliott cc: Jens Schweikhardt , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: option NFS -- why would I want it? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Scot Elliott wrote: > The kernel loads the NFS module the first time you use an NFS mount etc. > Try the modstat command and it should show up. You might prefer to do > this if you don't use NFS very often I suppose. I think compiling it into > the kernel is probably prefered for security reasons... is someone manages > to change an LKM you're in trouble. But changing the kernel needs a whole > reboot, which you'd notice (I hope). The main reason I statically compile NFS in is the sysctl stats -- apparently kernel modules cannot register to provide statistics through that interface, so things like nfsstat don't work. The response to my -pr was that the lkm interface needed a re-design, so I suspect it isn't going to be fixed too soon :). With regards to the LKMs -- also, at high securelevels, you cannot install new LKMs, so if you are using a variable-securelevel installation, you either need to make sure that the LKM is installed at a low securelevel, or statically compile. Robert N Watson ---- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message