Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS (in Rawhide) is about to happen

[fche redhat com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Steve Dickson <SteveD redhat com> writes:

> [...]
>> Unfortunately, this sounds like "only".  Is it out of the question to
>> make the client look for this case (an upgraded client in an existing
>> unupgraded, unchanged network) and handle it?
> We talked about it... See [...]
>
> But in the end, I decided not to do this since its not clear how the change
> would interact with other NFS servers...

It's a bit odd that we're about to push a backward-incompatible
change into Fedora, just in case non-Fedora servers are around.


- FChE