From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Re: Will NFSv4 be accepted?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:19:24 +0200
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>>>>> " " == marius aamodt eriksen <marius@umich.edu> writes:

     > and let's not forget such things as getting rid of the
     > representation of users as UIDs over the wire, as well as
     > delegations (i.e. better caching == better performance), named
     > (extended) attributes support, soon-to-come interoperability
     > with a vast array of operating systems, etc. etc.

Right. I wasn't saying that NFSv4 doesn't have anything going for
it. Just that Kerberos isn't the killer argument: it can easily be
integrated with earlier versions of NFS (and in fact Andy and I had
the basic Linux version running on NFSv3 in February *before* it was
tested for NFSv4).

IMHO the main argument for NFSv4 is the improved support for WANs.

Cheers,
  Trond


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