Comparison of the nfse compatibility mode with mountd and exports(5)

[Andrey Simonenko]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:53:09PM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:

> I haven't looked at Andrey's patch, but conceptually it sounds like
> the best approach. As I understand it, the problem with replacing
> mountd with nfse (at least in the FreeBSD source tree) is that nfse
> is not 100% backwards compatible with /etc/exports and, as such, is
> a POLA violation.

Since NFSE was mentioned in this thread and there were some opinions
about its compatibility with existent NFS exports configuration, I made
comparison of the nfse compatibility mode with mountd and exports(5):

http://nfse.sourceforge.net/COMPATIBILITY