From: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
Subject: RE: Interoperability
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:52:46 -0800
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hi rushi-

> As of now most of the NAS boxes talk NFSv2/3. When NFSv4 will be =
widely
> use, won't these boxes be useless? Can we have some
> interoperability mechanism for this?

why do you believe that supporting NFSv2/3 and supporting
NFSv4 is mutually exclusive?  every NFSv4 implementation
i'm aware of (except one prototype) allows all three versions
to coexist peacefully.


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