From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 10:52:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C194B1065675 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua) Received: from comsys.kpi.ua (comsys.kpi.ua [77.47.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729C38FC1F for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pm513-1.comsys.kpi.ua ([10.18.52.101] helo=pm513-1.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua) by comsys.kpi.ua with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1SrRrc-0007pd-Lz; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:52:16 +0300 Received: by pm513-1.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8F8DE1CC2D; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:52:11 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:52:11 +0300 From: Andrey Simonenko To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120718105211.GA47667@pm513-1.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> References: <4FECAD2C.8070402@unsane.co.uk> <68594395.2439924.1341103989486.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <68594395.2439924.1341103989486.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Authenticated-User: simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua X-Authenticator: plain X-Sender-Verify: SUCCEEDED (sender exists & accepts mail) X-Exim-Version: 4.63 (build at 28-Apr-2011 07:11:12) X-Date: 2012-07-18 13:52:16 X-Connected-IP: 10.18.52.101:44390 X-Message-Linecount: 30 X-Body-Linecount: 13 X-Message-Size: 1411 X-Body-Size: 616 Cc: Rick Macklem , Vincent Hoffman Subject: Comparison of the nfse compatibility mode with mountd and exports(5) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:52:19 -0000 On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:53:09PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: > I haven't looked at Andrey's patch, but conceptually it sounds like > the best approach. As I understand it, the problem with replacing > mountd with nfse (at least in the FreeBSD source tree) is that nfse > is not 100% backwards compatible with /etc/exports and, as such, is > a POLA violation. Since NFSE was mentioned in this thread and there were some opinions about its compatibility with existent NFS exports configuration, I made comparison of the nfse compatibility mode with mountd and exports(5): http://nfse.sourceforge.net/COMPATIBILITY