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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: The next step: nfsvers=4
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:55:45 -0400
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Tom Talpey wrote:
> 
> I would strongly suggest touching and/or changing as few options as
> possible, and paying close attention to the results with legacy or
> generic configurations on new kernels. The more lenient, the better
> IMO, except where specific options require specific actions.
I agree with this... Being "backwards compatible" is imperative.
And allowing people to configure things to best fit their 
environment is something else we should maintain and possibly 
improve on...

steved.