diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux-2.6.0-test2/Documentation/Changes linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/Documentation/Changes
--- linux-2.6.0-test2/Documentation/Changes 2003-07-10 21:14:21.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2-ac1/Documentation/Changes 2003-07-16 18:40:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@
o quota-tools 3.09 # quota -V
o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd --version
o isdn4k-utils 3.1pre1 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
+o nfs-utils 1.0.4 # showmount --version
o procps 2.0.9 # ps --version
o oprofile 0.5.3 # oprofiled --version
-o nfs-utils 1.0.3 # showmount --version
Kernel compilation
==================
@@ -280,6 +280,34 @@
Due to changes in the length of the phone number field, isdn4k-utils
needs to be recompiled or (preferably) upgraded.
+NFS-utils
+---------
+
+In 2.4 and earlier kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any
+client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This
+information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client
+mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup. exportfs
+would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.
+
+This approach is quite fragile as it depends on rmtab being correct
+which is not always easy, particularly when trying to implement
+fail-over. Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from
+getting lots of old entries that never get removed.
+
+With 2.6 we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it
+gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate
+export information to the kernel. This removes the dependency on
+rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently
+active clients.
+
+To enable this new functionality, you need to:
+
+ mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfs
+
+before running exportfs or mountd. It is recommended that all NFS
+services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where
+that is possible.
+
Getting updated software
========================
@@ -368,6 +396,10 @@
------------
o <ftp://ftp.isdn4linux.de/pub/isdn4linux/utils/isdn4k-utils.v3.1pre1.tar.gz>
+NFS-utils
+---------
+o <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14>
+
Netfilter
---------
o <http://netfilter.filewatcher.org/iptables-1.2.tar.bz2>
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