svn commit: r192934 - head/usr.sbin/mountd

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 28 May 2009 3:43:55 pm Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-May-27 22:02:54 +0000, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >  Modify mountd to handle the experimental nfs server as well as the
> >  regular one. It now takes a "-4" command line argument to force it
> >  to use the experimental server.
> 
> I also feel that '-4' is likely to lead to confusion as to whether the
> option refers to NFSv4 or IPv4.
> 
> How about implementing a '-V n', where 'n' indicates the NFS version
> (with '-2' redefined as a deprecated equivalent to '-V 2').  This
> leaves '-v' for possible future used as some sort of verbose flag and
> both allows explicit specification of NFSv3 (presumably the default
> will change from NFSv3 to NFSv4 at some point - by which time we need
> a way to request NFSv3) as well as possible future NFS versions (NFSv5
> anyone?).

The NFS server typically has not been limited to a single version.  Instead, 
the client chooses which version to use.  And the choice is really between 
the old NFSv[23] server and the new NFSv[234] server.  -V 2  or -V 3 would be 
ambiguous since both servers implement NFSv2 and NFSv3.  I'm not a huge fan 
of -4, but I'm not sure there is a better option that accurately 
reflects "--the-newer-one" or "--NFSng".

-- 
John Baldwin