NFS version 4.0 for FreeBSD-CURRENT

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 20 March 2009 4:00:38 pm Rick Macklem wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> >
> > FreeBSD in general is moving away from new flags in mnt_flags I believe.  
At
> > least if you purely need NFS-specific flags you can just add new string
> > options via nmount(2) and set appropriate settings in private flags field 
in
> > your NFS-specific mount data.
> >
> Ok, thanks. I vaguely knew about nmount(2), but didn't realize it was
> being used for server exports. (The MNT_EXxxx flags are/were used by the 
> NFS server and are relevant when set on an exported local fs like UFS/FFS.
> As such, they are either generic mount stuff or UFS/FFS specific. I
> think ZFS keeps its own export stuff, so making it UFS/FFS specific
> might make sense?)
> 
> Anyhow, it's not urgent, since the server works ok without any additional
> flags.

Ahhh, ok, that is different then.  I must have misunderstood.  If it is flags 
the NFS server sets on arbitrary filesystems to manage exporting then 
a 'mnt_exflags' field might be best.

-- 
John Baldwin