Sun Microsystems recently released a new version of the software: SSGD
4.41-907  ... I have only installed in Solaris 10 so far, I did not yet
have the chance to try it out on an Ubuntu 8.04 installation.

But SSGD 4.41-907 too just like the previous version 4.40-917 (the one
my bug report is about) officially only support RHEL 5 and SLES 10 ...
So I imagine that the underlying mount script will still be the same and
that it too will still expect those old mount options to work.

There should be a package, e.g. something like "nfs-compat" or something
like that, that would give people like me the old NFS binaries back
(make it conflict with the new mainstream NFS binaries if you have to)
so closed-source enterprise packages like this stuff from SUN will
continue to work.

Stuff like this is exactly the reason why e.g. some of the customer
companies I work with they will not accept Linux and especially not
Ubuntu, because things work in one release and then all of a sudden stop
working in the next release and nobody can really tell you why this was
even done.

Messing with those NFS mount options and making it incompatible was
really a silly decision, sorry to say so.

-- 
Ubuntu 8.04: /sbin/mount.nfs no longer understands certain (standard?) mount 
options
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251923
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to