Mount NFSv4.2 filesystem in barebox?

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hi,

On 28.02.25 11:57, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:54:00PM +0100, Martin Wege wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Martin Wege wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Does barebox have support to mount a NFSv.2 filesystem?
>>>
>>> No, not yet. For NFSv4 we would first need TCP support. While we started
>>> to integrate a TCP stack we are not there yet unfortunately.
>>
>> How long is this going to take?
> 
> I don't think this will happen anytime soon. It's quite some work and
> our bandwidth for adding such a feature without (paying) customer
> demand is limited.
> 
> That said, the lack of NFSv4 support is nagging me personally as well.

We had a discussion about this last year, but it didn't result in any
upstream code yet:
https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/CAAvCNcCZhS8mkvdgcJ2L-eiur+OxgWEXRLnadO_HFyHfSi7WFA@mail.gmail.com/

One question that I still have, is what do you use NFSv4 for?
Is it just for development and your IT is disabling NFSv3?

Do you use it in the field?

Knowing about the use case helps with prioritizing future work.
As it stands, NFS is mostly understood as development feature and
it's expected so far that interested users will be able to provide
a NFSv3 UDP server in their development network.

Thanks,
Ahmad



> 
> Sascha
> 


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