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From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Linux NFS Mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mount.nfs: protocol fallback when server doesn't support TCP
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:27:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100826152702.GB23940@merit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <659EE931-F48E-4A5D-9212-D4F8AE421029@oracle.com>

Chuck Lever wrote:

  On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
  > Maybe the ideal would be to do a portmap probe and only fall back to v3 if
  > portmap confirm that v3 is supported and v4 isn't.

  What are the risks of checking portmap in this case?  That seems like it
  would give a better chance of a desirable outcome.

In general, portmap can't confirm that v4 isn't available, only that v3 is.
Right?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-26 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26  2:06 mount.nfs: protocol fallback when server doesn't support TCP Neil Brown
2010-08-26 14:51 ` Chuck Lever
2010-08-26 15:27   ` Jim Rees [this message]
2010-08-26 16:09     ` Chuck Lever
2010-08-30  0:30   ` Neil Brown
2010-08-30 19:29     ` Chuck Lever
2010-08-31  1:00       ` Neil Brown
2010-08-31 16:38         ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-07  1:32           ` Neil Brown
2010-09-07 17:37             ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-08  2:35               ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08 18:52                 ` Chuck Lever
2010-08-31 20:29         ` Chuck Lever
2010-09-07  0:02           ` Neil Brown

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