Krisbee wrote: 
> It's true that currently if you select type nfs4 but specifiy vers=3 as
> an option you also end up with a NFS mount.  It seems to me there are
> two obvious webui design choices here.
> 
> 1. You have a only one nfs type in the drop down selection. It should be
> labeled "nfs" but the storage page help must say this will default to
> NFS4 unless the user enters the option vers=3
> 
> or
> 
> 2. You leave both nfs and nfs4 as selectable share types and ensure when
> the user selects "nfs" as the share type the option "vers=3" is added to
> the mount command and /etc/fstab entry in the background.
> 
> I would argue the second is preferable as the on screen selectable share
> type choices are immediately obvious to the user who may know little
> about possible nfs options, but at least knows there's a difference
> between nfs and nfs4 and which version is running on their nfs server.

OK - I think I want to go with 1 as it is really a consequence of arch
going with nfs4 by default (which is different from the original target
of the web ui which is what drove two option) - so it seems logical to
have one nfs option which uses the default and note how to make it nfs3
in the help.


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