Re: [PATCH] NFSv4: Add modalias for "nfs4"

From: Myklebust, Trond
Date: Fri Apr 27 2012 - 10:50:26 EST


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).

Cheers
Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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