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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support to rpc.nfsd
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 09:44:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35ca5ad2-39db-a46b-13b2-a2e5128793a0@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r35k4rcr.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>



On 12/06/2016 05:36 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07 2016, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>>> +.B nfsd
>>> +Recognized values:
>>> +.BR threads ,
>>> +.BR grace-time ,
>>> +.BR lease-time ,
>>> +.BR udp ,
>>> +.BR tcp ,
>>> +.BR vers2 ,
>>> +.BR vers3 ,
>>> +.BR vers4 ,
>>> +.BR vers4.0 ,
>> Do we need both ver4 and ver4.0?
> 
> "vers4" allows you to enable or disable v4 has a whole.
> The assumption is that if enabled, all minor versions that the kernel
> supports will be enabled by default.
> vers4.x allows individual minor versions to be disabled, so
>  vers4=yes
>  vers4.0=no
> would disable v4.0, just like "-V4 -N4.0"
I see...

> 
> I do wonder if this is ever valid though.  Why do we allow minor
> versions to be enabled/disabled?
IDK... I think Trond did this... you know...
when in doubt... blame Trond! 8-) 
 
> Does it make any sense to enable a non-contiguous set of minor versions?
I don't think so... Talk about handing people rope! ;-)

> Should we just have a maximum NFSv4 minor version?
Maybe.. 

> 
> I was trying to duplicate the current functionality as closely as
> convenient.  That might not be best in this case.
You did a good job... this is definitely a nit.

steved.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02  3:58 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Enhance /etc/nfs.conf usage and remove nfs-config.service NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 02/15] conffile: add bool support NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 01/15] Add man-page describing /etc/nfs.conf NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 04/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support for mountd NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 05/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support for statd NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 03/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support to rpc.nfsd NeilBrown
2016-12-05 22:27   ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-05 22:42     ` NeilBrown
2016-12-06 17:52   ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:30     ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:34       ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 18:51   ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:36     ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:44       ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2016-12-07 18:08         ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-07 23:14           ` NeilBrown
2016-12-08  0:38             ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-09 22:43             ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-20 23:22       ` NeilBrown
2016-12-21  1:55         ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 07/15] conffile: free image of config file after parsing NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 10/15] conffile: strip "quotes" from values in conf file NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 08/15] conffile: split loading of file into a separate function NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 09/15] conffile: add support for include files NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 11/15] conffile: ignore setting of empty string NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 06/15] Add /etc/nfs.conf support for sm-notify NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 13/15] statd: allow --no-notify to be passed via environment variable NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 14/15] systemd: Remove the nfs-config.service NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 15/15] Add nfs.systemd man page NeilBrown
2016-12-02  3:58 ` [PATCH 12/15] conffile: allow $name expansion of tag values NeilBrown
2016-12-02 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH 00/15] Enhance /etc/nfs.conf usage and remove nfs-config.service J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-06 16:55 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:38   ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:24     ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 17:26 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-06 22:47   ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:19     ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-12-06 19:25 ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-06 22:51   ` NeilBrown
2016-12-07 14:21     ` Steve Dickson
2016-12-20 18:33 ` Steve Dickson

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