> On Apr 7, 2024, at 10:45 AM, Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/6/24 6:26 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 4:37 PM Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Unfortunately the idea of having a nfsv4 only server >>> did not go over well with upstream. >> Which upstream do you mean? nfs-utils, Linux kernel? > The NFS server maintainers... they didn't push back hard > but the didn't it was necessary. I'm sympathetic to some folks wanting a narrower footprint, but I think we'd like to have support for all versions packaged and available for an NFS server administrator, right out of the shrink-wrap. Currently, most installations want to deploy v3 and v4, so we should cater to the common case. As I recall, the NFSv4-only mechanism proposed at the time was pretty clunky. If you have alternative ideas, I'm happy to consider them. But let's recognize that an NFSv4-only deployment is the special case here, and not make life more difficult for everyone else, especially folks who might start with an NFSv4-only deployment and need to add NFSv3 later, for whatever crazy reason. The nfs-server unit should be made to do the right thing no matter what is installed on the system and no matter what is in /etc/nfs.conf. I don't see why screwing with the distro packaging is needed? -- Chuck Lever
