Re: [RFC 0/4] nfs-utils: nfsd support for minor version

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Benny Halevy wrote:
>> Benny Halevy wrote:
>>> Steve, please review the following patch that add support
>>> for controlling the nfsv4 minor version support via
>>> /proc/fs/nfsd/versions.
>>>
>>> [PATCH 1/4] utils/nfsd: fix -N optarg error printout
>>> 	This patch fixes an existing bug.
>> This is a bug... and has been committed...
>>
>>> [RFC 2/4] utils/nfsd: add support for minorvers4
>>> 	Under-the-cover support for minorvers4
>> I see you let minorvers4 default to zero, which means 4.1
>> support is off by default. Why? As long as we have away to
>> turn of 4.1 processing (i.e. your 4/4 patch), then I see
>> no reason we should have the support enabled by default. 
> 
> I was also thinking about using the new nfs-utils with old kernels.
> Though, these should not puke on seeing [-+]4.1, they'll
> just interpret it as enabling/disabling v4.
> I'll test that...
I just did... Using the '-N 4.1' flag to rpc.nfsd on an older 
kernel simply turns off all v4 processing... which is fine, IMHO...

steved.