From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Mount version older than kernel: 4 vs. 6
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:34:09 -0700
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Cc: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
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P=E5 on , 04/08/2004 klokka 06:51, skreiv Olaf Kirch:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:25:23PM +0200, Frank Steiner wrote:
> > I see. But then it looks like a bug to me that the code in the inode.c
> > is comparing the "NFS version" (4, in data->version) against the
> > "NFS kernel mount struct" (6, in NFS_MOUNT_VERSION). That doesn't
> > make sense, does it?
>=20
> data->version _is_ the API version. Your mount binary currently
> uses API version 4. The kernel supports up to API version 6
> (which add NFSv4 support).

Nope. NFSv4 uses an entirely separate mount structure.

For the NFSv2/v3 mount structure, API version 5 adds RPCSEC_GSS the
secure RPC model. API version 6 adds support for passing security
context information down for use by LSM/SELinux/...

Cheers,
  Trond


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