can i run a fully and exclusively NFSv4 network?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat Sep 18 09:09:30 UTC 2010


 On 09/18/2010 04:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   a while back, i noted on fedora 12 that it seemed impossible to try
> to run NFS exclusively in version 4 mode:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552144
>
> i just noted the same thing on centos/rhel 5.5.  that is, if i edit
> /etc/sysconfig/nfs and uncomment the lines:
>
> MOUNTD_NFS_V1="no"
> MOUNTD_NFS_V2="no"
> MOUNTD_NFS_V3="no
>
> i would have thought that this would mean that i'm trying to use NFSv4
> exclusively.  but if i try that, i still get that same error from
> mountd on rhel as i did on fedora.
>
>   i've verified that, to get around it, i simply need to advertise at
> least one of those earlier versions, doesn't matter which one.  so,
> according to red hat's jeff layton, that's still a bug in mountd,
> correct?

I don't know, as I haven't checked, since....
>   and in a larger context, if you had control over an entire network
> in terms of NFS both client and servers, is it feasible to run the
> entire network using only NFSv4?  thanks.
>
>
In the larger context I do have control over an entire network (5
servers, 8 clients) and all they use are NFSv4.  I think that qualifies
as feasible.


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