Regarding File Handle during mount in NFSV4

[Trond Myklebust]

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 01:19 -0400, vidyasagar Ravipati wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We are looking into the source code for mounting of the file system in
> NFS v3 and v4. (source code nfs-utils.1.0.10).
> As per our observation, we found that in NFS v3, we get the file
> handle from the mount daemon via TCP. 
> In NFS v4 We could not find the code for getting the file handle
> before mouting. In NFS v4 are we getting the file handle during
> mounting from mount daemon. Please provide hints in the source.

There is a perfectly good RFC that documents the NFSv4 protocol (see
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3530.txt). We should _not_ have to document
it in the source code.

Trond