> In article <cistron.E11MGDV-0003Vo-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Shure, it does! But Distributions like Redhat are already shipping them
> >> anyway. If you get a 2.2.x Kernel from kernel.org running on a Redhat 6.0
> >> Basesystem. NFS will no longer work :(
> >
> >Yep. Because the knfsd shipped with 2.2.x isnt good enough, but if I upgrade
> >stuff in the kernel to need new tools people get all pissy and obnoxious
> >as they did with raid.
>
> Well Alan, with RAID the upgrade was pretty dangerous - you had
> to mess around with converting important, critical config files by hand
> (mdtab -> raidtab) and people feared they could lose their data. At least
> I did. And if you created a new style RAID partition there was no way
> to go back to a kernel < 2.2.12.
>
> All of those facts do not apply to the kernel NFS server upgrade.
> It's just a tools upgrade, there is _no_ chance of data loss at all.
> If you want to go back to 2.2.12, downgrade the tools, be done.
I agree completely with that, thats exactly the same reasons I was
concerned with the raid upgrade. That, and raid appears to work, unlike
knfsd, which sounds like its pretty broken. I have no problem with
upgrading/downgrading tools if need be.
later,
Andrew Kieschnick
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