Re: [PATCH] manpage: explain why showmount doesn't really work against a v4-only server

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Yeah, that certainly wouldn't hurt. I'd suggest we add that in a
> separate patch though.

Agreed.

> We will need to spell this out in the manpage either way. At least with
> ganesha, you can export some filesystems via v3 and others via v4 only,
> and the MNT service there will only report the v3 ones. In that case,
> you have a reachable service, but the v4-only filesystems will be
> missing from showmount's output.

That doesn't sound like a great idea to me, but maybe you have no choice
if for some reason you want to allow simultaneous support for v3-only
clients and for filesystems that require long filehandles?  Ugh.

Anyway, this kind of warning doesn't have to catch every odd case.

--b.