On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:20:04 +1100 matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote:
> > > The NFS subsection (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/nfs.html) > > > indicates that "/export/client/swap" should be exported as a diretory, but > > > this does not make sense since "/export/client/swap" is the actual swap > > > file. > > > > That doc has aged badly: "Most versions of linux only implement NFS2". > > yeah, it really is. we added normal swap to nfs file a long time > ago, not really that much longer than the "nfsmntpt" mount point > option. i've just been using plain swap files for decades. > > it would be great if someone updated this doc. > > > That hasn't been true for _many_ years and indeed, by now the reverse > > is true. Most Linux distros prefer NFSv4, will provide NFSv3, but have > > NFSv2 disabled by default. Which plays merry hell with netbooting NetBSD > > off a Linux server, because that _needs_ NFSv2 (at least for a sparc64 > > client), making the addition of RPCNFSDOPTS="--nfs-version 2,3,4" to the > > appropriate config necessary. Yes, it took me staring at packet captures > > to figure that one out. > > this sounds more like a build-time option we can probably fix. > eg, ofwboot and kernel just need to do the right thing and try > nfsv3 before nfsv2. > > anyone want to look at fixing it for us? :) > > > .mrg. About 10 years ago I also noticed some misinformation in that document. I found this mailing list thread which discussed a particular error. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/09/25/0000.html And in particular this message: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/09/25/0008.html
