On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:06:45PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
On 10/26/2009 01:34 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Steve Dickson <SteveD(a)redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 10/26/2009 12:06 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, this sounds like "only". Is it out of the question to
> make the client look for this case (an upgraded client in an existing
> unupgraded, unchanged network) and handle it?
We talked about it... See
http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2009-October/011471.html
But in the end, I decided not to do this since its not clear how the change
would interact with other NFS servers...
It's not clear to me how falling back to NFSv3 if v4 fails (and the
version wasn't explicitly set to v4) could ever cause a problem - it
might not help, but under what circumstances could it possibly be
harmful? I had a look at the linked thread from linux-nfs and no-one
there seemed to come up with anything concrete.
Ewan