On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 10:53 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:50:28PM +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 10:48 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:19:18AM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> > > > Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When NFSv4 is configured, the support goes into the nfs.ko module.
> > > > However, nfs-utils seems to pass "nfs4" as the fileststem type for
> > > > NFSv4 mounts.
> > > >
> > > > Weren't we going to change that to nfs and use nfsvers to select nfs4?
> > >
> > > I have, approximately, no idea. At least the version of nfs-utils found
> > > in Fedora 17 and rawhide, it's still using "nfs4". I believe that is
> > > nfs-utils-1.2.6-rc6 based.
> >
> > nfs4 is still _supported_ in Fedora 17, rawhide and upstream as a legacy
> > feature, but the recommended practice should be to mount -t nfs -overs=4
> > (or -overs=4.1).
>
> OK. So either this patch needs to go in, or something needs to add:
>
> alias nfs4 nfs
>
> to a conf file so modprobe picks it up. I figured the kernel could add
> the alias itself. Is there a reason not to?
Yes. This is a legacy feature that we want to encourage people to move
their systems off...
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer
NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com
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