Re: Is Darwin 11.4.0 capable of NFSv4?
Re: Is Darwin 11.4.0 capable of NFSv4?
- Subject: Re: Is Darwin 11.4.0 capable of NFSv4?
- From: Mike Mackovitch <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:27:08 -0700
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:22:03AM +0800, Sid Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Andreas Boesen <email@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > does OS X 10.7 support NFSv4 as a client. I couldn't find any documentation
> > on developer.apple.com or Googol.
> >
> > There is only the man-Page[1] and a thread in this list[2] indicating that
> > OS X 10.6 as NFSv4.0alpha support.
> >
> > Could someone point me to some kind of "changelog" or Documentation about
> > the status of the NFS client implementation in OS X 10.7 please?
Here's a documentation link:
> > [1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/mount_nfs.8.html
Note that the "vers=4.0alpha" mentioned in the 10.6 version of the man
page is no longer supported and that "vers=4" is now supported in 10.7.
That would indicate that the NFSv4 support is no longer considered "alpha" quality.
> It seems that AFP is the default NAS protocol in MacOSX, rather than
> NFS. And I also think NFS implementation in XNU kernel is too old and
> related bugs can't be fixed ASAP. But I also want to know why
> NFSv4(4.0/4.1, pNFS included) is not supported on MacOSX.
Because customers aren't asking for it.
HTH
--macko
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