RE: [nfsv4] Minor Versioning.

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From: wurzl, mario (wurzl_mario@emc.com)
Date: 02/01/05-01:30:28 PM Z


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From: "wurzl, mario" <wurzl_mario@emc.com>
Subject: RE: [nfsv4] Minor Versioning.
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:30:28 -0500 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfsv4-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:nfsv4-bounces@ietf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Trond Myklebust
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:47 PM
> To: Robert Gordon
> Cc: nfsv4@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [nfsv4] Minor Versioning.
> 
> må den 31.01.2005 Klokka 19:25 (-0600) skreiv Robert Gordon:
> 
> > > Why is the existing NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP insufficient for 
> these purposes?
> > 
> > The proposal allows for a succinct up-front mechanism to ascertain
> > the operations supported by the server in one round-trip. One could
> > also figure out the minor versions supported by the server if the
> > supported operations in the reply was zero.
> >
> > I don't see how one could achieve the same with NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP,
> > maybe i'm missing something..
> 
> The minor version is always known to the client, since it 
> supplies it as
> an argument to COMPOUND. The server will return
> NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH if it does not support that minor version.
> 
> Beyond that, NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP is sufficient to ascertain which ops
> actually have been implemented. In practice it makes little 
> sense for a
> server to advertise a minor version if it does not actually implement
> any of the features of that minor version, so we should be able to
> assume that the number of unimplemented recommended features 
> will always
> be small.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Trond
> -- 
> Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

Robert's proposal would allow a server to choose not to implement all the
features of a minor release.

Mario

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