>>>>> " " == Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:
> What it is really refering to is version 4 of the "protocol"
> used for mountd to give information to the kernel about
> mounting a filesystem. version 4 for this "protocol" includes
> support for mounting NFSv3, and other things (possibly mounting
> over TCP.. Trond could tell you).
It only changes the format of the filehandle field, which, of course,
is necessary to support NFSv3. TCP was already supported by the old
protocol.
> The proposed patches provide support in the kernel for version
> 4, without upseting support for all earlier versions.
> So while I haven't actually tried it, it looks like
> util-linux-2.10m does support mounting using NFSv3.
Yes. I'm using RedHat's util-linux 2.10f on my portable with no
problems when mounting NFSv3 partitions.
Cheers,
Trond
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