Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:36:44 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/35098: [PATCH] Handbook NFS stuff Message-ID: <20020305183644.GB7015@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <3C84E600.3030209@pittgoth.com> References: <200203040710.g247A1Y75400@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020304092002.GA2321@submonkey.net> <3C839B52.3020206@pittgoth.com> <20020305101859.GA4224@submonkey.net> <3C84E600.3030209@pittgoth.com>
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:36:32AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > Ceri wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:05:38AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > >>How does "a minimial of one client" sound to you? > >> > >I'm with Giorgos - "one or more" is better. > >After all, I'm not going to turn up on anyone's doorstep if they > >dare to set up a server and no clients, so we shouldn't make it > >sound as someone is going to ;) > > I'm not going to complain, the more I thought about it, the more logical > it became in my mind, I will throw togeather another patch ;) OK cool. > >>>><application>nfsiod</application> > >>>> > >>>Is this the same thing as biod on Solaris ? > >>> > > > >It looks like it is (from the biod manpage on an arcane version of SunOS) : > > > > biod starts nservers asynchronous block I/O daemons. This > > command is used on a NFS client to buffer cache handle > > read-ahead and write-behind. > > > >Whether we want to start saying "foo is the equivalent of bar on QuuxOS" is > >a question that will probably be answered in the negative - it was rather > >frustrating, however, to be referred to the manpage and find nothing more > >there, but that's not really your problem, I suppose; the manpage needs > >fixing too. > > Maybe I should just remove the reference to the man page? Or just leave > it in hopes that someone will eventually work on the manual page? Probably best to keep the link to the manpage. Perhaps there's just nothing interesting to say about nfsiod anyway! > This is how I read what you say: > "I guess that using the -alldirs option will PERMIT the mounting of > subdirectories, without requiring a seperate entry for them? In this > way, you could export the /home dir, and not be required to specify > which user home directories be exported..." If the client is only interesting in /home/ncvs, say, then using the -alldirs option for /home on the server will let the client mount only /home/ncvs, and not force it to mount all of /home; I think you've got it. (I must sound really patronising, sorry). Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the messagehelp
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