Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Tuesday 3 December 2024 11:29:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote:

> > I had (another) look at the wiki.  You're right, it seems to describe
> > NFSv3
> > only.  I don't have NFSv3 here to compare.  With NFSv4 you export the
> > global root directory to allow its subdirectories to be exported too - at
> > least this is how I understand it works on my systems.
> 
> ...but today I see, buried in what you might call the small print: "If the
> NFS server or client support NFSv3 only, the full path to the exported
> directory (e.g. /export/home or /export/data) needs to be specified when
> mounting." [1]
> 
> We could debate whether that's guidance enough.
> 
> 1.   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nfs-utils#Mounting_exports , about a page
> down.

Yes, but further up all the IPv4 configuration syntax still shows v3 style 
examples with '/export/foo' paths.  I think there should be clearer 
disambiguation with separate examples between v3 and v4.  However, isn't NFS 
v3 considered legacy by now?

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