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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: steved@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, jfajerski@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] manpage: explain why showmount doesn't really work against a v4-only server
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 09:44:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190513134457.GA13359@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <593884facebf2ebcafcbe577845a961abbaa9928.camel@kernel.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.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-13 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-10 21:54 [PATCH] manpage: explain why showmount doesn't really work against a v4-only server Jeff Layton
2019-05-11 13:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-05-13  8:12   ` Jan Fajerski
2019-05-13 13:29   ` Jeff Layton
2019-05-13 13:44     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-05-13 14:19       ` Frank Filz
2019-05-29 13:15   ` Steve Dickson
2019-05-29 13:24     ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-06-03 14:27 ` Steve Dickson

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