Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> 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: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0905281553470.9041@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca> 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 Fri, 29 May 2009, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> 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?).
>
It actually indicates which nfs server to run, not what versions of
nfs is supported, although the experimental one does NFSv4 as well as
NFSv2 and 3.
I'm about to pass a commit that changes the "-4" to "-e" along to my
mentor for approval.
rick
ps: The experimental server does have a way to restrict which versions
of NFS it supports, via sysctl variables.
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