Re: [ClusterNFS-Devel] rpc.mountd and translate-names

[Michal L. <mi...@lo...>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> one if the things I still don't understand is why mountd also has support for 
> name translation (I'm not common with nfs details, but I thought it's only 
> necessary for allowing the client to mount a directory). Furthermore, I think 
> I ones tried if it works. when nfsd name translation is disables and I 
> believe to remember that it didn't work.

Well I've found it a bit useless as well. But you can disable it if you 
don't like it. 

> And can anyone give me a list of literature citates that describe NFS?

Search the web for NFS version 2 (ie via Google). Originally it is a 
protocol from Sun Microsystems.

Michal Ludvig