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Re: nfs, nfsd (was: Unionmount: proxying the control port)
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Sergiu Ivanov |
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Re: nfs, nfsd (was: Unionmount: proxying the control port) |
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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:35:47 +0300 |
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Hello,
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:56:33AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:18:58AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > For the sake of pushing the horizon of my knowledge, I'd like to ask
> > one more question: is nfs a kind of an interface to nfsd, the latter
> > being responsible for actually fetching the remote filesystems,
> > maintaining caches, etc., while nfs's role being to publish this as a
> > virtual filesystem? (I'm asking because I was surprised when I found
> > out that there not only is nfs, but also nfsd.)
>
> It's actually simpler: nfs is the NFS client (that is, used for importing
> / ``mounting'' remote NFS file systems locally) and nfsd is the Hurd's
> NFS server, which exports to other machines the local file system using
> the NFS protocol.
Aha, I see :-) Thank you for the explanation :-)
> Indeed both fsys_getfile and file_getfh are only used for
> exporting-via-NFS purposes -- you can safely ignore that for now. (I
> don't know any details about that, but if I understand this correctly,
> the worst thing which not implementing them means is that a remote user
> (who is importing a Hurd machine's file system using NFS) won't be able
> to see any files served / translated by unionfs (and most of the other
> translators).) That aside, I have never used nfsd and don't know of
> anyone who has (during the last years). I do use nfs (as does Olaf, as
> he told), and it basically works.
I see; you use nfs for mounting network filesystems exported by
systems other than Hurd, right?
Regards,
scolobb
- Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/07
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Carl Fredrik Hammar, 2009/07/07
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/08
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/12
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/13
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/13
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/18
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/10
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/12
Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/10