[Nix-dev] [PATCH] NFSv4 support

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Fri Dec 30 16:55:52 CET 2011


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:36:19PM +0100, Rickard Nilsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my experimentations with shared Nix stores and/or db, I needed a
> working NFSv4 client, which NixOS doesn't have. So I fixed that. I
> have attached two rather large patches, one for nixos and one for
> nixpkgs. What I have done is, basically, that I have replaced
> "portmap" with "rpcbind", added "libnfsidmap", updated various
> libraries and utilities, and adjusted the NFS upstart jobs to start
> rpcbind and rpc.idmapd.

Shouldn't we keep portmap? Maybe we can have an option choosing what rpc
mechanism nixos should use. But I prefer keeping portmap.


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