NFSv4 server running on RHEL 5.1

[Steve Dickson]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:41:23PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:39:28PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:26:00PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>> Ido Levy wrote:
>>>>> I am willing to run NFSv4 server on Linux RHEL 5.1.
>>>> I've been running both the client (on my desktop) and 
>>>> the server (as my server) for quite a while now... without 
>>>> major issues... 
>>>>
>>>>> Are the nfs packages that ships with RHEL 5.1 provide a stable solution for
>>>>> NFSv4 server or should I use
>>>>> the recommended configuration in the following link:
>>>>> http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/  under "Last tested stable configuration"
>>>> You could wait until until the 5.2 update release which should be 
>>>> out in a few weeks... but to truly be on the bleeding edge you could
>>>> try using either Bull's or CITT's -ALL patch sets... 
>>> I've been really bad about keeping up the CITI-ALL patches, actually.
>>> I'll try to start that up again....  For now you're better off with the
>>> latest mainline.
>> Someone should maintain some Red Hat-style RPM's of the bleeding edge
>> stuff. :-)
> 
> I seem to remember Fedora/Rawhide having an rpm that tracked the latest
> mainline (maybe even with regular git snapshots?).
This is true... the rawhide kernel follows very closely to the
mainline kernel and I try to keep the nfs-utils in rawhide
as close as possible to nfs-utils git tree on linux-nfs.org.

steved.