From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 19:55:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06BF10658B2; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) Received: from esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca (esa-jnhn.mail.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212688FC19; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rmacklem@uoguelph.ca) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAGuJHkqDaFvG/2dsb2JhbADPDoQNBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,267,1241409600"; d="scan'208";a="36845083" Received: from amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca ([131.104.91.198]) by esa-jnhn-pri.mail.uoguelph.ca with ESMTP; 28 May 2009 15:55:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BBE2100BD; Thu, 28 May 2009 15:55:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca Received: from amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zNAqQRAy9PSJ; Thu, 28 May 2009 15:55:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.91.102]) by amazon.cs.uoguelph.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A976210138; Thu, 28 May 2009 15:55:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (rmacklem@localhost) by muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id n4SJuSS09764; Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca: rmacklem owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:56:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem X-X-Sender: rmacklem@muncher.cs.uoguelph.ca To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20090528194355.GB1331@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Message-ID: References: <200905272202.n4RM2s2M013427@svn.freebsd.org> <20090528194355.GB1331@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r192934 - head/usr.sbin/mountd X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:55:33 -0000 On Fri, 29 May 2009, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > I also feel that '-4' is likely to lead to confusion as to whether the > option refers to NFSv4 or IPv4. > > How about implementing a '-V n', where 'n' indicates the NFS version > (with '-2' redefined as a deprecated equivalent to '-V 2'). This > leaves '-v' for possible future used as some sort of verbose flag and > both allows explicit specification of NFSv3 (presumably the default > will change from NFSv3 to NFSv4 at some point - by which time we need > a way to request NFSv3) as well as possible future NFS versions (NFSv5 > anyone?). > It actually indicates which nfs server to run, not what versions of nfs is supported, although the experimental one does NFSv4 as well as NFSv2 and 3. I'm about to pass a commit that changes the "-4" to "-e" along to my mentor for approval. rick ps: The experimental server does have a way to restrict which versions of NFS it supports, via sysctl variables.