From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Status of mount.nfs Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:17:19 +1000 Message-ID: <18065.43199.104020.412029@notabene.brown> References: <20070708191640.GA13962@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: lamont@debian.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7jkf-00020g-7K for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:17:29 -0700 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1I7jki-0003b6-I6 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:17:32 -0700 In-Reply-To: message from Steinar H. Gunderson on Sunday July 8 List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Sunday July 8, sesse@debian.org wrote: > Hi, > > util-linux 2.13 drops support for NFS mounts: > > Release highlights: > ------------------ > mount(8) doesn't include NFS client code anymore. Don't forget to > install nfs-utils 1.1.0 or newer with /sbin/[u]mount.{nfs,nfs4}. > > However, the last I can find in nfs-utils changelog about this is: > > commit 99414bd3eecf93f23c378d3bb3d45bc98f364abc > Author: Neil Brown > Date: Sat Jul 8 09:41:58 2006 +1000 > > Disable building/installing mount.nfs by default. > > mount.nfs does not yet support 'user' option and some others. > To make it support this we need to make it setuid-root, and > some security isses need to be resolved before that can be done > safely. I wonder why you didn't find: commit b3b111b1bd5fbc678419bf1964b6093045081139 Author: Neil Brown Date: Tue Mar 20 14:18:41 2007 +1100 Build mount.nfs by default, and install setuid Also fix a few bugs that came up in initial testing. > > What's the current recommendation for distributions with regard to NFS > mounting? nfs-utils-1.1.0 builds and install mount.nfs by default, and should be used with the new util-linux. NeilBrown ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs