From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261845AbTILSx5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261841AbTILSxD (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:53:03 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:64747 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261811AbTILSvh (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:51:37 -0400 To: Marco Bertoncin - Sun Microsystems UK - Platform OS Development Engineer Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS/MOUNT/sunrpc problem? References: <200309121743.h8CHhB114413@brk-mail1.uk.sun.com> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 12 Sep 2003 14:51:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200309121743.h8CHhB114413@brk-mail1.uk.sun.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Marco Bertoncin <- Sun Microsystems UK - Platform OS Development Engineer > writes: > This is a MOUNT req, not NFS, so we are using userland rpc? Correct. Unless you are doing NFSroot (which was what I thought you might be using)... For ordinary NFSv2 and NFSv3 mounts, the 'mount' program talks directly to the server, then passes the resulting filehandle down to the kernel. Cheers, Trond