On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Tayade, Nilesh wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chuck Lever [mailto:chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:43 PM >> To: Tayade, Nilesh >> Cc: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: NFS version4 maximum on-the-wire data size. >> > >> >>> >>> Also we use 2.6.22 kernel version (it's old, and have no option of >>> changing it) on our Intel boxes. I was just wondering is there any >>> kernel-version Vs. NFS version mapping (I assume it's not, but just >> to >>> be sure about)? I have never seen NFSv2 running on our boxes. I am >> going >>> to write certain applications on top of NFS. So wanted to be sure if >>> NFSv2 should be supported at all (is it so widely used on recent >>> systems, compared to NFSv3/v4)? >> >> With certain exceptions, applications shouldn't generally be aware of >> what NFS version is in use. Without knowing more about your >> applications, it's hard to make any more than a very general > statement. > > Well, to be specific - I need to deal with packet sniffers (capturing > the NFS packets) and so I need to consider the NFS versions as the > packet contains will differ (different procedure calls, Error codes > etc.). NFSv3 and increasingly NFSv4 are in broad use today. Whether or not to support NFSv2 is dependent on your target customers. But it's considered a legacy protocol. -- 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
