From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Tom Haynes <thomas.haynes@primarydata.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: default NFSv4.2 to on
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:27:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150211182727.GJ25696@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150211181231.GA80012@kitty.kitty>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:12:31AM -0800, Tom Haynes wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:54:13AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > I agree there's a documentation and marketing problem: it would simplify
> > communication with users if "this server supports 4.2" reliably meant
> > support for some minimum list of features.
> >
>
> The "marketing" message over NFSv4.2 has been pretty consistent - everything
> is optional and a fully compliant server can return not supported for
> every new feature. I.e., a NFSv4.2 server is pretty simple if you have
> an existing NFSv4.1 server.
Yes, and I like that, but it's not without tradeoffs.
--b.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-11 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-02 16:15 [PATCH] nfsd: default NFSv4.2 to on J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-11 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-02-11 14:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-11 14:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-02-11 14:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-11 15:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2015-02-11 15:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-02-11 18:12 ` Tom Haynes
2015-02-11 18:27 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
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