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Re: NFS as a module / kerneld question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Sep 10 10:49:13 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: dcflood@u.washington.edu (David Flood)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:23:18 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-normal@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960909215651.31773A-100000@saul7.u.washington.edu> from "David Flood" at Sep 9, 96 10:03:13 pm
> 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?
You'll totally break and ruin your NFS apart from that its fine. The 4
processes are not useless. Kill them as a pre-removal thing if you need to
