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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server
To: dima@bog.msu.su (Dmitry Khrustalev)
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> > ...and of course, FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't have v3 and I don't intend to add it
> > before the release.
> 
> Speaking of different nfs versions in 2.1 and 2.2: is it possible to add 
> kernel interface version identifier? It will be much better if userspace 
> programs fail gracefully on version mismatch instead of current behavior.

RPC does versioning for you.

The issue is one of integrating multiple protocol versions into a single
*stable* set of code.  Then registering both versions for RPC requests.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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