On 10/26/2009 01:34 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 10/26/2009 12:06 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >>> Is this really "first" or rather "only"? Was there a conclusion about >>> whether the nfs client code would be changed to fall back from v4 to >>> v3 automatically? >> It meant "first"... [...] >> The problem comes in when the server does support v4 but the exports are >> not configured correctly (like pre F-12 Linux servers). [...] >> mount.nfs: mounting laptop:/home failed, reason given by server: >> No such file or directory > > Unfortunately, this sounds like "only". Is it out of the question to > make the client look for this case (an upgraded client in an existing > unupgraded, unchanged network) and handle it? We talked about it... See http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2009-October/011471.html But in the end, I decided not to do this since its not clear how the change would interact with other NFS servers... steved. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
