From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 21:40:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31A8106566B for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 21:40:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-annu.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-annu.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9F08FC08 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 21:40:37 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApwEAIZ+sEyDaFvO/2dsb2JhbACDH6AVqkKRaoEigzF0BIpAiyI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,309,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="94811227" Received: from erie.cs.uoguelph.ca (HELO zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca) ([131.104.91.206]) by esa-annu-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2010 17:40:35 -0400 Received: from zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zcs3.mail.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7C2B3F61; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:40:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:40:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem To: Benjamin Kaduk Message-ID: <627785309.472007.1286660435759.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [174.114.48.168] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.7_GA_2476.RHEL4 (ZimbraWebClient - SAF3 (Mac)/6.0.7_GA_2473.RHEL4_64) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, gil@vidals.net Subject: Re: moving away from freebsd and zfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:40:38 -0000 > 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