From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] showmount bug fixes
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:32:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B466F20.1090907@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C1CD7DD-E915-4FDB-815A-6D9B78A68AE5@oracle.com>
On 01/07/2010 05:43 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> If you think v2-only servers are so rare, why even bother downshifting
> the protocol version at all?
I did think of this... since a point of this exercise is to begin
the end of v2 support... but since we have a habit of being backwards
compatible (as well as being portable), I figure downshifting was the
right thing to do...
> The original showmount command does not
> have any problem connecting to a v2-only server, since it used only
> MNTv1 to do the EXPORT request.
True... The problem is showmount does not handle v3 only servers
which is another point of this discussion...
>
> Most legacy servers are NFSv2 only. I bought a new-in-box ReadyNAS a
> year or so ago that ran Linux 2.4, and it's NFS server was, in fact,
> v2-only.
Really.. that is surprising... how well did it perform and could it
negotiate up to v3??
steved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-07 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-07 16:26 [PATCH 0/2] showmount bug fixes Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20100107162421.27102.21422.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-07 16:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] showmount: Eliminate compiler warnings Chuck Lever
2010-01-07 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] showmount: Use CLNT_CONTROL for version fallback Chuck Lever
2010-01-07 17:52 ` [PATCH 0/2] showmount bug fixes Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <4B461F48.4070906-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-07 18:38 ` Chuck Lever
2010-01-07 20:25 ` Steve Dickson
[not found] ` <4B464355.1000405-AfCzQyP5zfLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-07 22:43 ` Chuck Lever
2010-01-07 23:32 ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2010-01-12 12:26 ` Steve Dickson
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