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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH] kNFSD - Allowing rpc.nfsd to setting of the port, transport and version the server will use
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:26:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4346AFD4.3000009@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051007164435.GC9759@fieldses.org>

Hey Bruce,

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> So the obvious question is what will happen if someone does
> 
> 	rpc.nfsd -N 3
> 
> on a server supporting 2, 3, and 4.
> 
> It looks like the code in svc_create() will set pg_lovers to 2 and
> pg_hivers to 4 in that case.  So if someone tries to use version 3, the
> error they get back will be a somewhat contradictory "sorry, I only
> support versions 2 through 4."
hmmm.... good point... But I wonder if this would be better
handled in rpc.nfsd process; Similar to what happens when
no transports are specified (i.e. both -T and -U flags are set),
the server fails to started.

steved.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-07 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-07 16:17 [PATCH] kNFSD - Allowing rpc.nfsd to setting of the port, transport and version the server will use Steve Dickson
2005-10-07 16:44 ` [NFS] " J. Bruce Fields
2005-10-07 17:26   ` Steve Dickson [this message]
2005-10-07 17:54   ` Peter Staubach
2005-10-11  1:26 ` Neil Brown
2005-10-11 10:54   ` Steve Dickson
2005-10-12  4:23     ` Neil Brown

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