Re: newnfs user setup

> Well, for head/current, I don't think you'll need anything different
> unless
> you want to run NFSv4. If you want to force use of the old nfs server,
> you
> can do that with:
> oldnfs_server_enable="YES"
> 
> As for the client side, I have up to date scripts for /etc/rc.d in
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/rc.conf
> - I am waiting for a review on those, before they go into head.
> 
> > The reason I am asking is that I see some things than seems
> > unexpected
> > to me.
> > For example, rc.d/nfsserver tries to load nfsserver.ko, but that
> > fails
> > in my
> > environment:
> > root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module nfsserver
> Hmm, I have no idea why the old server module won't load for you, but
> if you want to run the new/default one, you don't need it anyhow.
> (If you replace /etc/rc.d/nfsd with the one in ~rmacklem/rc.conf you
> should delete /etc/rc.d/nfsserver. All it does is make the old nfs
> server module load and my modified /etc/rc.d/nfsd does that, as
> required.)
> 
Btw, it would be nice to find out why it doesn't load. You might
try "kldload -v nfsserver.ko" and see what happens? (It loads for
me here.)

> > And these modules come built into my kernel:
> > $ kldstat -v | fgrep nfs
> > 171 nfssvc
> > 126 nfsd
> > 123 nfscommon
> > 172 nfslockd
> > 124 nfs
> > 130 unionfs
> > 125 nfscl
> > 170 nfslock
> >
> So you have the new client (nfscl) and new server (nfsd) already
> loaded
> and should be good to go.
> 
> > Also, I see that rc.d/nfsclient has
> > required_modules="nfsclient:oldnfs"
> > which is also a little bit surprising.
> >
> This would just force loading of the old client. Harmless, but
> unnecessary
> unless you are using it.
> This is because the rc.d scripts haven`t been updated for the client
> yet.
> (See above w.r.t. ones for review. The 3 that change are
> mountcritremote,
> nfsclient, plus a one line change to rc.conf in defaults.)
> However, I think everything should work for your case.
> 
> > So I would appreciate an example here.
> >
> I don`t think any changes are necessary, although it would be nice if
> you
> grabbed the new rc.d scripts and tested them.
> 
Btw, you'll find two versions of the mountcritremote patch. One, called
mountcritremote.diff2 is the minimal 1 line change needed to fix it.
The other, called mountcritremote.diff, takes out all the nfs specific
cruft that doesn't seem to be needed anymore, at least for the testing
I've done. (If I can't get this well reviewed, I'll go with the 1 line
change for head for now.)

> > Also, for my future tests, I would like to get some pointers on
> > getting started
> > with NFSv4 in FreeBSD.
> >
> For the NFSv4 client, you need to:
> nfsuserd_enable=``YES``
> 
Oh, and the mount command looks like:
# mount -t nfs -o nfsv4 server:/path /mntpath

> for the server
> nfsv4_server_enable=``YES``
> nfs_server_enable=``YES``
> - you`ll also need to add a ``V4: ...`` line to your exports file. See
> man exports or man nfsv4
> 
> rick