nfsv3 vs nfsv4 ? advantages of moving to v4?

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Sun Apr 28 22:25:27 UTC 2013


cat /etc/zfs/exports

Works the same for UFS and ZFS. :)

At least on FreeBSD. Solaris-based OSes have more in-depth support for
NFS-exported ZFS.
On 2013-04-28 7:58 AM, "Jeremy Chadwick" <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 04:53:53PM +0200, Olav Grns Gjerde wrote:
> > The main reason I moved to nfsv4 was that I could export multiple ZFS
> > filesystem with just one export. With nsfv3 I could only export one ZFS
> > filesystem per export.
>
> When you say "one/per export", what exactly do you mean?
>
> For exporting ZFS filesystems via NFS, I've always used /etc/exports.
> I've never used the "share" property per ZFS filesystem, because in my
> experience (at the time -- this was early days of ZFS on FreeBSD) it
> just flat out didn't work.  Using /etc/exports always worked for me.
>
> I always liked having all my exported filesystems in one place
> (/etc/exports), versus UFS ones in /etc/exports + ZFS ones requiring me
> to use "zfs get ..." and so on.
>
> Does it really bother you that much to have multiple lines in
> /etc/exports (using NFSv3)?
>
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