RFC: make the experimental NFS subsystem the default one

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:17:05 pm Kirk McKusick wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it needs to start being more widely tested now and the only real way to 
force that is changing the default.

> 	Kirk McKusick
> 
> =-=-=
> 
> 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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John Baldwin