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From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: moving away from freebsd and zfs
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Gil Vidals wrote:

> The solution described here,
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11873 points to compiling a
> kernel with these options:
>
> options NFSD
> options DEVICE_POLLING
> options HZ=1000
>
> The NFSD seems to be what solved the problem for the forum poster, but NFSD
> option means that NFSv4 (experimental) is what is running and that isn't
> supported by the VMware NFS client, so I can't use it. I don't know what to
> do and I would be grateful for any suggestions.

I thought that the experimental server can speak both NFSv4 and NFSv3 -- 
have you actually tried using it and had the VMware client fail to talk to 
it?  It seems that one can specify the -e argument to nfsd and skip the 
kernel rebuild, if I am reading the man page correctly ...

-Ben Kaduk