Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:18:59 +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: <20020305101859.GA4224@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <3C839B52.3020206@pittgoth.com> References: <200203040710.g247A1Y75400@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020304092002.GA2321@submonkey.net> <3C839B52.3020206@pittgoth.com>
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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 ;)
> >><application>nfsiod</application>
> >
> >I've read the manual page, and I'm not really any the wiser here.
> >nfsiod services async requests according to the manpage - what if i don't
> >have
> >any filesystems mounted async ?
> >Is this the same thing as biod on Solaris ?
>
> Well would you want them? and I don't use Solaris, not for NFS anyways,
> so I would have no clue what your talking about it you even mentioned
> biod. If you want to reword that to help the Solaris boys please offer
> an opinion as I'm at a loss.
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.
>
> >>+ information. The <option>-alldirs</option> flag allows the
> >>directories
> >>+ below the specified filesystem to also be exported.</para>
> >>
> >
> >Um, no it doesn't. Not really.
> >This reads as though failing to specify -alldirs will allow me to mount
> >/home, but will not result in /home/setantae being exported.
> >The -alldirs flag actually allows the directories below the specified
> >filesystem to be used as the root of a mount point, i.e. using the line
> >below will allow 10.0.0.[2-4] to mount /home/setantae from the server.
> >Now try turning that into English :)
>
> I am trying to think of a better example, this one made me think for a
> few moments ;) But the ``vision'' is approching ;)
OK, but you know what I'm saying, right ?
> >I'd rather see -maproot=root here (and everywhere else).
> >Although that may cause problems interoperating with Plan9, where the
> >superuser
> >appears to be called "glenda", it doesn't make it look as though something
> >is being "turned off".
>
> I can agree with this, although about the Plan9 interoperation problem,
> that SHOULD be documented on their side. Most *nix versions use the
> root user ;)
Wizard.
Thanks,
Ceri
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