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From: brent@terra.eng.sun.com (Brent Callaghan)
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Subject: Re: Patch for 4.1 mount available from Sun
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Date: 24 Jul 90 06:01:20 GMT
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In article <10148@brazos.Rice.edu>, canon!laukee@relay.eu.net (David Lau-Kee) writes:
> thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu (Manavendra K. Thakur) writes:
> 
> >There is a bug in the 4.1 mount command that prevents the machine from
> >mounting NFS filesystems from non-Sun machines.  The relevant Bug IDs are
> >1040275 and 1036952.
> 
> Does anyone have more information on this bug?  Exactly what is failing?
> I appear to be able to mount my NeXT partitions on Suns running 4.1.

SunOS 4.1 adds a new version of the MOUNT protocol (version 2) that
includes a procedure to provide POSIX pathconf support.  The SunOS 4.1
mount command was modified to try a bind to version 2 followed by a
fallback to version 1 if version 2 is not supported.

The patch description is NOT correct.  The new mount logic works correctly
for almost all non-Sun implementations of NFS except for Silicon Graphics
and Prime.

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