Re: kickstart & nfs4?

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:35 +0100, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:25 +0100, Howard Wilkinson wrote:  
> > > Is it possible to do an NFS4 base install using kickstart. I can see
> > > how to specify the other opts but will kickstart honor a fstype=nfs4
> > > or similar switch?
> > 
> > Not at the moment -- nfs4 requires a fair bit of different code to get
> > the mount to work.  There's a feature request filed for it in bugzilla,
> > but it's fairly low priority.  It shouldn't be that hard, though, if
> > someone wanted to provide a patch.  Basically you'd just need to add
> > support for nfs4 to the mounting code in isys/imount.c
> 
> I would be willing to have a go at producing such a patch, how would
> you want it specified in the kickstart file? Would you want the nfs
> line to include fstype=nfs[234] as a valid option or would you want
> nfs4 as a new keyword?

Having nfs4 as a separate keyword is more inline with how things
actually work with mount itself.  But I don't really care that much --
whichever approach is easier/cleaner is probably the best one for this
case

Jeremy