Subject: Re: NFSv3 code brought in
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/19/1996 03:15:42
In article <199602181211.NAA01461@mail.fwi.uva.nl> frank@fwi.uva.nl writes:
>A merge of Rick Macklem's NFSv3 code (from Lite2) has just been checked in
>to the main source tree. After your next update you should be sure to update:
>
>	- /usr/include
>	- mount
>	- mount_nfs
>	- mountd
>	- nfsd
>
>..before booting a freshly compiled kernel. Please note that a v3 mount is
>now the default for mount_nfs. It should fall back to v2 if a v3 mount
>fails. To explicitly use a v2 mount, use the '-2' flag to mount_nfs. So,
>if you don't trust v3 yet, you can use -2 in your fstab to always get
>a v2 mount. However, the code has gone through some testing, so things
>should be ok.
>
>Known bug: a TCP mount to a Solaris 2.5 server may hang if left idle for a
>while. If you encounter this bug (or any other bug for that matter)
>please try to gather details on it, and report it. Thanks!

- amd does not work anymore (I am working on it).
- mount_nfs does not compile (it is missing mntopts.h)

Otherwise everything looks good.

christos