Re: Failure to fallback to nfsd-v3 (?)

Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-07T08:31:08Z

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 05:23:49PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>
> >> And the following commit seems to change the behavior.
> >>
> >> [nfsd4: fix error return when pseudoroot missing]
> >> f39bde24b275ddc45df1ed835725b609e178c7a0
> >>
> >> Well, anyway, is this a expected behavior change, or something bug?
> >
> > It's expected. I'd recommend turning off nfsv4 on the server (add "-N4"
> > to the rpc.nfsd commandline) for now.
>
> This looks like the silent user visible change. So, it would be better
> to add more comment at least in changelog.

Or rather it should be fixed. We should not silently break existing
and probably rather common setups.