Re: [pnfs] [PATCH v2 06/47] nfsd41: Add Kconfig symbols for NFSv4.1

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On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:05:53PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> On Apr. 02, 2009, 21:46 +0300, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:41:33PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> >> It looks like rpc.nfsd's command line syntax is all negative.
> >> I.e. all versions are on by default and they can be turned off
> >> using the -N option.  I can either add an option to enable minorversion
> >> or have it enabled by default and add an option to disable it.
> > 
> > I'm not a big fan of that commandline syntax--seems to me it should give
> > a range rather than a list of versions not to support.
> > 
> > For now the important thing is that the kernel default minorversion 1 to
> > off.  We can worry about what rpc.nfsd should do later--I guess a
> > commandline option to turn on specific minor versions would work....
> > Maybe allow --nfs-version as well as --no-nfs-version?
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.
> How about --nfs-versions (in plural) to correspond to /proc/fs/nfsd/versions
> and then pass the whole versions string?

I suppose that would work, but it seems a little inconsistent with the
current syntax, and with the way unix commandlines works in general.
Something a little less idiosyncratic would be easier to document and
remember.

--b.
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