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Re: NFS woes
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:32:46 +0100
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Ken Teh wrote:

> reverted back to NFSv3 and have had no problems with it.  Are folks satisfied 
> with NFSv4?  Or, am I the stupid one for trusting the default on the distro? 
> I'd appreciate any general remarks you might have on how to move forward.

I've been put off NFSv4 becuase I cannot understand how to
export several directory trees in differenet partitions.
NFSv4 seems to want you to merge them into a virtual partion
and export that, but the kernel cannot cope with the different
bits of the virtual partition having different permission modes.
So I can't export a read only partition and a read-write partition
without the kernel becoming dangerously confused :-(

I went back to NFSv3.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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