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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:13:39 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFSv2 boot & OLD_NFSV2
Message-ID:  <20170321081339.2wbx3rb32qdavvn3@ivaldir.net>
In-Reply-To: <84D239AB-AB57-4A50-9700-E42BBF9CBE5A@cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:58:21AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>=20
> > On 20 Mar 2017, at 23:55, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
> >=20
> >>=20
> >> On 20. m=E4rts 2017, at 23:53, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wro=
te:
> >>=20
> >> Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 08:22:12PM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:
> >>>> Hi!
> >>>>=20
> >>>> The current boot code is building NFSv3, with preprocessor condition=
al OLD_NFSV2. Should NFSv2 code still be kept around or can we burn it?
> >>>>=20
> >>>> rgds,
> >>>> toomas
> >>>=20
> >>> I vote burn
> >>>=20
> >>> Bapt
> >> I would be happy to see NFSv2 go away. However, depending on how peopl=
e configure
> >> their diskless root fs, they do end up using NFSv2 for their root fs.
> >>=20
> >> Does booting over NFSv3 affect this?
> >>=20
> >> I think the answer is no for a FreeBSD server (since the NFSv2 File Ha=
ndle is the same as
> >> the NFSv3 one, except padded with 0 bytes to 32bytes long).
> >> However, there might be non-FreeBSD NFS servers where the NFSv2 file h=
andle is different
> >> than the NFSv3 one and for that case, the user would need NFSv2 boot c=
ode (or
> >> reconfigure their root fs to use NFSv3).
> >>=20
> >> To be honest, I suspect few realize that they are using NFSv2 for thei=
r root fs.
> >> (They'd see it in a packet trace or via "nfsstat -m", but otherwise th=
ey probably
> >> think they are using NFSv3 for their root fs.)
> >>=20
> >> rick
> >=20
> > if they do not suspect, they most likely use v3 - due to simple fact th=
at you have to rebuild loader to use NFSv2 - it is compile time option.
> >=20
>=20
> old systems, 8.x, still use/boot v2, and so do old linux.
> NetApp has discontinued support for v2, so we had to move this machines t=
o use FreeBSD server and the day was
> saved. So, till these machines get upgraded/discontinued we have a proble=
m. There are several solutions
> to this issue, but as long as it's a matter of getting rid for the sake o=
f it, I would vote to keep it a while longer.
>=20
> danny
>=20
>=20
Given you are speaking of 8.x I suppose you are using the loader that comes=
 with
it, meaning you are safe if we remove it from the loader in 12.0 (note as s=
aid
by Toomas that is it is already off by default in the 12.0 loader) am I mis=
sing
something?

Best regards,
Bapt

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