From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable text-based mounts in mount.nfs
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:11:35 -0500
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To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Steve-
> 
> Sorry for posting a single patch with a cover letter (a practice normally
> frowned upon).
> 
> Here's the mount.nfs change that makes text-based NFS mounts the default,
> deprecating the old legacy mount ABI for 2.6.23 kernels and later.  It's
> best to get this into the code base for people to start using long before
> you plan to cut a new release of nfs-utils.
> 
> Text-based NFS mounts, as you know, are required to enable several upcoming
> advanced NFS features, such as IPv6 support, NFS over RDMA, and local disk
> caching.  It will also make it simple to add support for new NFS mount
> options.
> 
> The 2.6.23 kernel's text-based NFS mount support works for many basic
> configurations.  There are some regression nits that are cleaned up in
> 2.6.24.
Ok..
> 
> Btw, will you continue hosting the nfs-utils git repository on
> linux-nfs.org?
Yes... I'm a bit behind atm... but I plan on catching up this week...

steved.


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