Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:59:54 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r192934 - head/usr.sbin/mountd Message-ID: <200905281559.55169.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090528194355.GB1331@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200905272202.n4RM2s2M013427@svn.freebsd.org> <20090528194355.GB1331@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Thursday 28 May 2009 3:43:55 pm Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-May-27 22:02:54 +0000, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Modify mountd to handle the experimental nfs server as well as the > > regular one. It now takes a "-4" command line argument to force it > > to use the experimental server. > > I also feel that '-4' is likely to lead to confusion as to whether the > option refers to NFSv4 or IPv4. > > How about implementing a '-V n', where 'n' indicates the NFS version > (with '-2' redefined as a deprecated equivalent to '-V 2'). This > leaves '-v' for possible future used as some sort of verbose flag and > both allows explicit specification of NFSv3 (presumably the default > will change from NFSv3 to NFSv4 at some point - by which time we need > a way to request NFSv3) as well as possible future NFS versions (NFSv5 > anyone?). The NFS server typically has not been limited to a single version. Instead, the client chooses which version to use. And the choice is really between the old NFSv[23] server and the new NFSv[234] server. -V 2 or -V 3 would be ambiguous since both servers implement NFSv2 and NFSv3. I'm not a huge fan of -4, but I'm not sure there is a better option that accurately reflects "--the-newer-one" or "--NFSng". -- John Baldwin
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