Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:58:21 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Cc: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NFSv2 boot & OLD_NFSV2 Message-ID: <84D239AB-AB57-4A50-9700-E42BBF9CBE5A@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <1B7471CD-2F2D-4F22-9D25-E46580CF9E96@me.com> References: <38DD1950-AD12-4A27-8335-54F997E408DF@me.com> <20170320192000.6hal22ibnr3ajog3@ivaldir.net> <YTXPR01MB0189B266270E22DADF9A48EADD3A0@YTXPR01MB0189.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> <1B7471CD-2F2D-4F22-9D25-E46580CF9E96@me.com>
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> On 20 Mar 2017, at 23:55, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> On 20. m=C3=A4rts 2017, at 23:53, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> = wrote: >>=20 >> Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 08:22:12PM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>>=20 >>>> The current boot code is building NFSv3, with preprocessor = conditional OLD_NFSV2. Should NFSv2 code still be kept around or can we = burn it? >>>>=20 >>>> rgds, >>>> toomas >>>=20 >>> I vote burn >>>=20 >>> Bapt >> I would be happy to see NFSv2 go away. However, depending on how = people configure >> their diskless root fs, they do end up using NFSv2 for their root fs. >>=20 >> Does booting over NFSv3 affect this? >>=20 >> I think the answer is no for a FreeBSD server (since the NFSv2 File = Handle is the same as >> the NFSv3 one, except padded with 0 bytes to 32bytes long). >> However, there might be non-FreeBSD NFS servers where the NFSv2 file = handle is different >> than the NFSv3 one and for that case, the user would need NFSv2 boot = code (or >> reconfigure their root fs to use NFSv3). >>=20 >> To be honest, I suspect few realize that they are using NFSv2 for = their root fs. >> (They'd see it in a packet trace or via "nfsstat -m", but otherwise = they probably >> think they are using NFSv3 for their root fs.) >>=20 >> rick >=20 > if they do not suspect, they most likely use v3 - due to simple fact = that you have to rebuild loader to use NFSv2 - it is compile time = option. >=20 old systems, 8.x, still use/boot v2, and so do old linux. NetApp has discontinued support for v2, so we had to move this machines = to use FreeBSD server and the day was saved. So, till these machines get upgraded/discontinued we have a = problem. There are several solutions to this issue, but as long as it's a matter of getting rid for the sake = of it, I would vote to keep it a while longer. danny
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