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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux NFSv4 mailing list <nfsv4@linux-nfs.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/9] NFS Mount Configuration File
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:25:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090317202501.GD32331@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0503E0B-59F4-46BA-9430-08C34B2F693E@oracle.com>

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:17:05PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I think the problem I have with this (besides the complexity) is that  
> if we must add more ways of avoiding NFSv4, then is NFSv4 really ready  
> to be made the default?

Even given the best possible client and server implementation, there are
enough user-visible not-completely-backwards-compatible changes in the
protocol (ACLs, string names, etc.) that silently substituting v4 can't
be the right thing for every case.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-09 20:44 [Patch 0/9] NFS Mount Configuration File Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 20:47 ` [Patch 1/9] Make idmapd's Configuration Parsing Code Available Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 20:50 ` [Patch 2/9] Ignore blanks in section definitions and before assignment statements Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 20:52 ` [Patch 3/9] Ensure configuration values are stored in lower case Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 20:58 ` [Patch 4/9] Mount support routines used to convert mount options Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 21:03 ` [Patch 5/9] Hooks needs incorporate file configuration code Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 21:04 ` [Patch 6/9] An example of an nfsmount.conf file Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 21:06 ` [Patch 7/9] New nfsmount.conf(5) man page Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 21:08 ` [Patch 8/9] Another way to define the configuration file Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 21:10 ` [Patch 9/9] Fixed a couple nits Steve Dickson
2009-03-09 21:49 ` [Patch 0/9] NFS Mount Configuration File Chuck Lever
2009-03-17 19:44   ` Steve Dickson
2009-03-17 20:17     ` Chuck Lever
2009-03-17 20:25       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2009-03-17 20:36         ` Chuck Lever
2009-03-18 13:07       ` Steve Dickson
2009-03-18 16:31         ` Chuck Lever
2009-03-18 18:10           ` Steve Dickson
     [not found]             ` <49C13928.8040806-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-19 11:13               ` Steve Dickson
     [not found]                 ` <49C228D3.4070005-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-19 15:45                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-19 16:37                 ` Chuck Lever

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