On 01/07/2010 05:43 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > On Jan 7, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Steve Dickson wrote: > If you think v2-only servers are so rare, why even bother downshifting > the protocol version at all? I did think of this... since a point of this exercise is to begin the end of v2 support... but since we have a habit of being backwards compatible (as well as being portable), I figure downshifting was the right thing to do... > The original showmount command does not > have any problem connecting to a v2-only server, since it used only > MNTv1 to do the EXPORT request. True... The problem is showmount does not handle v3 only servers which is another point of this discussion... > > Most legacy servers are NFSv2 only. I bought a new-in-box ReadyNAS a > year or so ago that ran Linux 2.4, and it's NFS server was, in fact, > v2-only. Really.. that is surprising... how well did it perform and could it negotiate up to v3?? steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
