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