----- Original Message ----- | On 30.07.2013 03:00, Anton Starikov wrote: | > I see that NFS support has been merged to the main repo, which is | > nice. | > | > But I have a question, are there any plans on the support of NFS4? | | NFS4 support was never part of the initial scope of the GSoC work. | AFAIK, there are no plans to implement NFS4, mostly due to size | constraints and developer time. | | Would you care to elaborate why NFS3 support is not sufficient for | your | use-case? | | Marin: Have you investigated the complexity of supporting NFS4? | | -- Robin
NFSv4 has the benefit of using only one port (2049) whereas NFSv3 uses portmapper. This makes it easy to firewall and route. This is what I would be interested in, not sure of the OPs reasoning. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : [email protected] Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who can lay a solid foundation from the bricks others have thrown at them.” -David Brinkley via Luke Shaw _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
