On 07/07/2009 02:27 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:41:11PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> I would like to apply the following patch to the rawhide
> kernel that will make exports for NFS v4 mount work just
> list exports for v3 and v2 mounts.
>
> In a nutshell, for NFS v4 mounts to work like v3/2 mounts
> the '/ *(ro,fsid=0)' entry has to be added to the /etc/exports
> file. This patch eliminates the need for that entry.
>
> The history, reasoning and evolution of this patch can
> be found at:
>
http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2009-June/010724.html
>
This seems fairly sensible to me. Feel free to apply it where
appropriate.
cool... will do...
The patch by itself does not change any functionality until
the updated user level bits (i.e. rpc.mountd) are committed,
which will be in a couple of days...
steved.