Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:00:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/28325: NFS_NOSERVER kernel option causes zillions of syslog messages Message-ID: <200106212100.f5LL08597645@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/28325; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/28325: NFS_NOSERVER kernel option causes zillions of syslog messages
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:53:38 -0700
Ian Dowse wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/28325; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: bin/28325: NFS_NOSERVER kernel option causes zillions of syslog
messages
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:24:35 +0100
>
> In message <15154.21394.258675.13215@onceler.kciLink.com>, Vivek Khera write
s:
> >
> >ID> What mount options are you using? It looks as if you either asked
> >ID> for NQNFS or kerberos, neither of which are likely to work well.
> >
> >I use NQNFS (-q option to mount). Why would this not be expected to
> >work? The mount_nfs man page says nothing about it. Thanks.
>
> NQNFS is an experimental protocol based on NFSv2 that is not in
> wide use, and it's implementation has suffered significant bit-rot
> over the years. Unless you have a really good reason to use it and
> you understand fully what it is and what it does, I'd advise using
> the newer and much more widely used NFSv3, which is the default
> anyway.
The NQNFS code is a festering pile of excretement. Among other things,
the NQNFS client side *depends* on the NFS server code being present,
and will leak kernel memory if mountd is not running (ie: the filesystem
exporter).
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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