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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Enable v4 mounts when either "nfsvers=4" or	"vers=4"
	option are set (vers-02)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:53:01 -0400
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On 08/28/2009 12:41 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:35:29PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Question... How are will it be to back out of this? Meaning the
>> kernel tries a v4 mount only to see the server does not support v4
>> or for some other recoverable error and then has to restart back
>> down the mount NFS again... This is very fairly trivial in user space...  
> 
> Same as we do now?  
Yes... 

> As soon as it doesn't work return an error, unwind
> and return to userspace?
Then why not simply stay in user space?

steved.