On Aug 26, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Jim Rees wrote: > Chuck Lever wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Neil Brown wrote: >> Maybe the ideal would be to do a portmap probe and only fall back to v3 if >> portmap confirm that v3 is supported and v4 isn't. > > What are the risks of checking portmap in this case? That seems like it > would give a better chance of a desirable outcome. > > In general, portmap can't confirm that v4 isn't available, only that v3 is. > Right? Registering an NFSv4 service with the local rpcbind is a SHOULD at best, true. But, if no version-specific mount options are specified, I think establishing any kind of connection is better than failing. -- chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- 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
