discrepancies in mount output

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:44:28PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields a écrit :
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:32:35PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>>> Guillaume Rousse a écrit :
>>>> On first host, I have:
>>>> rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
>>>>
>>>> On second host, I have:
>>>> sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
>>>>
>>>> Both are nfs4 clients. Is this normal ?
>>
>> Yes.
> My question was not really about the usefulness of this filesystem, but  
> why it is reported differently (sunrpc vs rpc_pipefs) on both hosts.

Oh, I see.  No, that doesn't matter.  Those strings are in the field
where the device name ("/dev/sda", or "server:/exports/") would normally
go.  For filesystems that don't use that field, the string is ignored;
it's also common just to see "none" there.

--b.