Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:09:01 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS v2? possible? Message-ID: <20031109210901.Y31688@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <6BE82884-1328-11D8-9FD6-003065A70D30@shire.net>; from chad@shire.net on Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:48:53PM -0700 References: <61B97A72-128F-11D8-9FD6-003065A70D30@shire.net> <20031109112856.GB94834@xor.obsecurity.org> <6BE82884-1328-11D8-9FD6-003065A70D30@shire.net>
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:48:53PM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
> On Nov 9, 2003, at 4:28 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:33:23AM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
> > wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have a linux server that needs to mount my FBSD server's web volume
> >> and the linux server only has v2 support right now (and I cannot make
> >> my own kernel since this is a UML kernel distributed as part of a
> >> product) and so I would like to run a v2 compatible nfs server on my
> >> FBSD server if possible. Can I do this? How? Thanks
> >
> > Read the mount_nfs and/or nfsd manpages..the answer is right there.
>
> The mount_nfs is for mounting on FreeBSD. I am serving from FreeBSD
> and mounting on Linux, so that does not apply. I read the nfsd man
> page a few time before posting, and just did again, and I see nothing
> in their about nfs versions except that the server listens on the port
> as outlined in thge NFS v3 spec. Please enlighten me on what I should
> read in the nfsd man page.
The client needs to request the mount version. Check the Linux man page
for `mount`, under the "Mount options for nfs" section. man nfs(5) is
also informative.
It looks like the default for Linux NFS clients (at least on a fairly
recent RedHat box) is to use version 2.
As root, I just did the following on the RedHat client (served by my
4-STABLE NFS server, Athena):
# mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=2 athena:/exports/pub test
I then tested the results by running mount (results trimmed to only
relevant examples ... warning, the lines are long and may wrap):
# mount
athena:/exports/pub on /nfs/pub type nfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mountvers=3,hard,intr,nolock,udp,wsize=8192,rsize=8192,addr=192.168.23.3)
athena:/exports/pub on /home/tillman/tmp/test type nfs (rw,nfsvers=2,addr=192.168.23.3)
The first line is my regular mount of the 'pub' export from Athena. It's
NFS version 3 because that's what I have in my /etc/fstab. The second
line is my 'test' mount of the same export ... it's NFSv2 because that
what I explicitly requested at the command line when running mount
manually (as shown above).
It's the same nfsd on the server side. I didn't do anything specify to
enable NFS version 2, my rc.conf entry says nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n
14" (the 14 is because it's a high-usage NFS server and my testing shows
that I consistently peak at around 12-14 nfsd's in use). You just have
to have the client request that version.
-T
--
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suits and the sysadmins. Which group has the Zen nature, and which group is
grieviously disturbing the stillness of the Tao?" And the master said nothing,
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