Rich.Brown at Sun.COM wrote: > Since this new behavior may expose existing subsystems, like cachefs, > to new failure modes, nfs4_fid() will only return a file ID when the > client file system is mounted with "-o fid". By default, the option is > off and the NFSv4 client will retain its current behavior.
Cachefs is already EOF and was never supported with NFSv4 so if that is the only subsystem that is potentially impacted then "-o fid" should probably be the default. -- Darren J Moffat
