From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: nfs-utils 1.0.7-pre1 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:27:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20041207152757.GE31250@fieldses.org> References: <16815.63554.437489.308079@cse.unsw.edu.au> <16819.42233.176348.675235@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bruce Allan , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CbhFy-0007fL-NX for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:28:02 -0800 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214] helo=pickle.fieldses.org) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.41) id 1CbhFx-0000Dq-E5 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:28:02 -0800 To: Neil Brown In-Reply-To: <16819.42233.176348.675235@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:16:57AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Yes........ > > It works better with > ./configure --disable-gss --disable-nfsv4 > > Bruce Fields would really rather distros compiled it with nfsv4 > support enabled and so it made that the default. However that > requires an extra package (or two?) which aren't commonly installed. > > Bruce should be back from leave in a day or two so I might leave him > to argue further for keeping --enable-nfsv4 as the default (or to cave > it and let it be changed :-)) The --enable-nfsv4 option just builds and installs rpc.idmapd, which is required for nfsv4. This doesn't mean rpc.idmapd has to be run by default. But by installing it, a distribution makes it convenient for users to try nfsv4 if they want. The dependency on libnfsidmap should be easy to satisfy: you can get the latest libnfsidmap tarball from http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ which includes all the infrastructure to build a Debian package. Or look at Steve Dickson's latest Fedora nfs-utils rpm's for another example. (He just includes libnfsidmap with the Fedora rpm and links it statically.) --b. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs