Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Ken Teh wrote:
reverted back to NFSv3 and have had no problems with it. Are folks
satisfied with NFSv4? Or, am I the stupid one for trusting the
default on the distro? I'd appreciate any general remarks you might
have on how to move forward.
I've been put off NFSv4 becuase I cannot understand how to
export several directory trees in differenet partitions.
NFSv4 seems to want you to merge them into a virtual partion
and export that, but the kernel cannot cope with the different
bits of the virtual partition having different permission modes.
So I can't export a read only partition and a read-write partition
without the kernel becoming dangerously confused :-(
That I was able to do. The following /etc/exports is an example:
/x @myclients(fsid=0,rw,....)
/x/packages @myclients(ro,...)
/x/home @myclients(rw,...)
I went back to NFSv3.
I completed my transition to NFS3 today. We'll see if it "performs better". I
expect it will from past experiences.
