Re: NFS Server not working without COMPAT_13

[Dirk Mast <condor2k%gmail.com@localhost>]

Magnus Eriksson wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Dirk Mast wrote:
> 
>>>>> I then enabled COMPAT_13 in the kernel config, recompiled and booted
>>>>> the new kernel and now NFS works.
> 
> I'm just an innocent bystander who never managed to get NFS working, but I
> have to ask: Why specifically COMPAT_13?  Even assuming you know exactly
> what you're doing, that just doesn't make sense.
> 
> (And why should that even work -- does a lower numbered COMPAT_ option
> automatically pull in the "intermediate" ones too?)
> 
> 
> I know you could not possibly have upgraded from 1.3, but did you upgrade
> at all?  If so, what happens if you use the COMPAT_nn that corresponds to
> the version you upgraded from? (COMPAT_30 or _20 or ...)
> 
> 
> MAgnus

I didn't upgrade at all. I came to this COMPAT_13 stuff, because I googled
and found a newsgroup entry somewhere, where they were discussing some
changes in NetBSD 1.3 with NFS. So I basically just tried it, and it
worked.

Greetings 

Dirk