svn commit: r192934 - head/usr.sbin/mountd

[Rick Macklem]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Peter Jeremy wrote:

>
> I also feel that '-4' is likely to lead to confusion as to whether the
> option refers to NFSv4 or IPv4.
>
> How about implementing a '-V n', where 'n' indicates the NFS version
> (with '-2' redefined as a deprecated equivalent to '-V 2').  This
> leaves '-v' for possible future used as some sort of verbose flag and
> both allows explicit specification of NFSv3 (presumably the default
> will change from NFSv3 to NFSv4 at some point - by which time we need
> a way to request NFSv3) as well as possible future NFS versions (NFSv5
> anyone?).
>
It actually indicates which nfs server to run, not what versions of
nfs is supported, although the experimental one does NFSv4 as well as
NFSv2 and 3.

I'm about to pass a commit that changes the "-4" to "-e" along to my
mentor for approval.

rick
ps: The experimental server does have a way to restrict which versions
     of NFS it supports, via sysctl variables.