Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:44:40 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, rmacklem@uoguelph.ca Subject: Re: NewNFS vs. oldNFS for 10.0? Message-ID: <CAGE5yCoKUijTDJk6uh9ROch-CAdkTAVJt3cvf0oKRmKhJT9Niw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201303151703.09688.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <514324E8.30209@freebsd.org> <201303150946.29100.jhb@freebsd.org> <51433D30.30405@freebsd.org> <201303151703.09688.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:03 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday, March 15, 2013 11:24:32 am Andre Oppermann wrote:
>> On 15.03.2013 14:46, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > On Friday, March 15, 2013 9:40:56 am Andre Oppermann wrote:
>> >> Hi Rick, all,
>> >>
>> >> is there a plan to decide for one NFS implementation for FreeBSD 10.0,
>> >> or to keep both around indefinately?
>> >>
>> >> I'm talking about:
>> >> oldNFS in sys/{nfs, nfsclient, nfsserver} NFSv2+NFSv3
>> >> newNFS in sys/fs/{nfs, nfsclient, nfsserver} NFSv2+NFSv3+NFSv4
>> >>
>> >> NewNFS supports newer NFS standards and seems to have proven itself in
>> >> some quite heavy traffic environments.
>> >>
>> >> Is there any reason to keep oldNFS around other than nostalgic?
>> >
>> > It can probably be removed. It's kind of handy to keep around as long as 8.x
>> > is around since it uses oldNFS by default as it makes merging bugfixes to the
>> > NFS client a bit easier (you fix both clients in HEAD and can then just svn
>> > merge both of those to 8 and 9). Having several fixes to the NFS client
>> > recently and being in a position of still using 8.x with oldNFS in production,
>> > I would prefer to not remove it quite yet.
>>
>> Do you have a timeframe on the sunset of oldNFS in HEAD so we can communicate
>> a) that oldNFS won't be in 10.0; and b) it will go on date X?
>
> I thought I implied one above: when 8.x is EOL'd. However, that has more to do
> with developer convience. It's actually a PITA to use the old NFS client even
> on 9.0.
Yes to both. As somebody who uses oldNFS in production in 9.x, I can
vouch for that.
Personally I'd like to see oldnfs go away from head after a
comfortable dust-settling period 8.4-R and then call it a day.
Although, please, as part of this please hunt down and s/newnfs/nfs/g
in the process. This should be done well before 10.x so loose ends
can be tracked down and fixed.
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