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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.

  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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