M. Todd Smith wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
>> Everything I've read about nfs says that v2 is the default, but I've
>> checked as you described and I'm seeing v3 as you say. Is that a
>> Suse-only thing?
> 
> Not that I am aware of, I checked the only other machine I have running
> a 2.4.x kernel (2.4.20 redhat 9 machine).  It too defaults to nfsv3
> connections on 4 different servers.  I haven't seen a machine default to
> nfsv2 for the past 4 years or so.  You can do two things really, get rid
> of the servers ability to serve up an NFSv2 connection, which I thought
> might have been happening on our SANS but I setup a small NFS server to
> check it out and its still defaulting to v3.  This procedure is outlined
> in the NFS FAQ I link below.

Yes, I'd seen that, but when I looked at how to implement that on a Suse
system it seems there's no place to configure it. It would mean hacking
the /etc/init.d/nfsserver script unless I've missed something.

> Or force v3 on all your clients.  I would
> probably force it all on the clients as it is far more clear to see it
> in many /etc/fstab's then it is on a single /etc/sysconfig file.

Except it's a lot harder to see one missing option in many fstabs than
in a single server config file (but since there isn't an appropriate
server config file, that's moot :)

Thanks again for your help,
Dave
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