On 10/26/2009 04:06 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> [...] >>> 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 [...] >> >> But in the end, I decided not to do this since its not clear how the change >> would interact with other NFS servers... > > It's a bit odd that we're about to push a backward-incompatible > change into Fedora, just in case non-Fedora servers are around. Well the reason for the incompatibility is the simple fact that the Linux server is a bit behind the rest of the servers out there when it comes to this particular type of v4 support... Note, I've been pushing kernel patches to for over a year now (which are in currently in the F-12) which would bring the server up to speed in this area... but they gained any priority with the maintainer... until recently... steved. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
