Re: Failure to fallback to nfsd-v3 (?)

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Christoph> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 05:23:49PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> >> And the following commit seems to change the behavior.
>> >> 
>> >> [nfsd4: fix error return when pseudoroot missing]
>> >> f39bde24b275ddc45df1ed835725b609e178c7a0
>> >> 
>> >> Well, anyway, is this a expected behavior change, or something bug?
>> >
>> > It's expected.  I'd recommend turning off nfsv4 on the server (add "-N4"
>> > to the rpc.nfsd commandline) for now.
>> 
>> This looks like the silent user visible change. So, it would be better
>> to add more comment at least in changelog.

Christoph> Or rather it should be fixed.  We should not silently break existing
Christoph> and probably rather common setups.

Hear hear!  NFS should just gracefully fall back as far as it can.  A
slow mount is better than NO mount.  Esp when /home is mounted via
NFS.

John
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