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NFS as a module / kerneld question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Flood)
Tue Sep 10 01:11:00 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Flood <dcflood@u.washington.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-normal@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I have modules and kerneld working quite well on my systems. The question
that I have is this:
Since nfs.o forks 4 useless processes when loaded (nfsiod), it will never
be auto-removed. Mounting doesn't use any of those processes, a new one
is started so the use count is never lower than 4. I have figured out
a 'post-install' command for kerneld that kills these useless processes
and allows auto-unload. What kind of fate am I tempting using this
command?
BTW the reason that I didn't just post the actual line from /etc/conf.modules
is that if this is a Bad Thing(tm), I don't want everyone to start using it.
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