Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:40:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, gil@vidals.net Subject: Re: moving away from freebsd and zfs Message-ID: <627785309.472007.1286660435759.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1010091713280.19200@multics.mit.edu>
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> On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Gil Vidals wrote: > > 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 > Yes, it should do NFSv3 and run when "-e" is specified for both nfsd and mountd (or set nfsv4_server_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, which sets the "-e" flag for both). You will need to create the empty file called /var/db/nfs_stablerestart using something like install -o root -g wheel -m 600 /dev/null /var/db/nfs-stablerestart before it will start up the first time. Good luck with it, rick
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