[Nix-dev] [PATCH] NFSv4 support

[Rickard Nilsson]

Den 2011-12-30 17:36:00 skrev Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de>:

>> Shouldn't we keep portmap? Maybe we can have an option choosing what rpc
>> mechanism nixos should use. But I prefer keeping portmap.
> Can those who know the difference write a brief summary about what the
> change means and list some arguments for both ways?
> Then it would be easier to judge.
>
> I will have a look at the ntfsv4 patch because I'm interested in it.
> Don't have time right now.

I was under the impression that portmap didn't work with NFSv4, but I'm  
not so sure anymore. rpcbind seems at least to have "more features", ipv6  
support etc. It seems several distributions (Debian, ArchLinux) switched  
out portmap for rpcbind when implementing proper support for NFSv4. I can  
try to see how NFSv4 works out with portmap in Nixos. As long as it works,  
I don't care which one is used. I'm a bit busy now, but I'll report back  
when I have tried it out. Maybe I can implement a way to select which RPC  
daemon that should be used.

   / Rickard Nilsson