In my home lan setup its an opensolaris (zfs fs) NFS server that is supposed to be set to show NFS vers=3 on offer.
Somehow on the client end... my gentoo desktop, its getting mounted with vers=4 as evidenced by the output of `mount' opensolairs_NFS_SERVER:/pub on /pub type nfs (rw,users,addr=192.168.0.29,vers=4,clientaddr=192.168.0.2) Note it says vers=4. I don't see where that is being set. /etc/conf.d/nfs mentiones NFS vers=4 but doesn't say that is what its telling the kernel to use. From /etc/conf.d/nfs # Optional services to include in default `/etc/init.d/nfs start` # For NFSv4 users, you'll want to add "rpc.idmapd" here. NFS_NEEDED_SERVICES="rpc.idmapd" Does that determine what version gets used... it doesn't sound like it would. These lines out of /etc/init.d/nfsmount seems to be the culprit: # Make sure nfs support is loaded in the kernel #64709 if [ -e /proc/modules ] && ! grep -qs 'nfs$' /proc/filesystems ; then modprobe -q nfs fi ebegin "Mounting NFS filesystems" mount -a -t nfs,nfs4 eend $? Or does `mount -a -t nfs,nfs4' just mean vers 4 is made available? I have 2,3 and 4 enabled in the kernel: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep 'NFS[^D].*=' CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y CONFIG_NFS_V4=y CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y There is also a: # CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 is not set But I think that is experimental, and not necessary for vers=4 to be available. So is the linux client supposed to decide which version to mount by what it sees on offer? If so, then is there a known problem when the server is opensolaris? I know opensolaris people tell me to set the server to offer only version=3 because there is some problem with linux if you use version=4. On the opensolaris lists, I've been discussing this, and it appears other users are not having a similar problem when they tell the server to use version=3 which I have (on the opensolaris server in /etc/default/nfs): # Sets the maximum version of the NFS protocol that will be used by # the NFS client. Can be overridden by the "vers=" NFS mount option. # If "vers=" is not specified for an NFS mount, this is the version # that will be attempted first. The default is 4. #NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=4 # [HP 03/12/09 00:20 NFS_CLIENT_VERSMAX=3 # ] ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Any input would be helpful..