RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one

[Kirk McKusick]

I complete agree with Pawel's assesment. In the end, you have to have
more extensive testing to shake out the last few issues. There is plenty
of time before the 9.0 release, so if any serious issues arise, you can
change the default back.

	Kirk McKusick

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:08:34 +0200
From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org>
To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca>
Cc: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:49:10AM -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that the experimental NFS server is now ready for generic use
> and that the experimental NFS client will be soon, after some commits
> over the next week or so.
>
> How do folks feel w.r.t. making these the default?

You should definiately do that!

1. The code is in the tree for a long time.
2. Old NFS client/server stays and it is trivial to switch back to them
   in case of problems. Would be nice to have UPDATING entry for this.
3. This is FreeBSD HEAD only for now, so people should be ready for
   experimental stuff in there.
4. Would be great to have NFSv4 in FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE.

Really, Rick, there is nothing to wait for. :)

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