This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
added "#define PRECISE_SYMLINKS" to the amd config header - this
solves a problem with the amd "-type:=direct" mounts and /bin/sh
giving a "readlink failed" if you cd'ed to a "-type:=direct" mounted
directory
i got this from david mazieres as a result of giving him our (mostly
doug rabsons) fixes for the amd "-type:=direct" mounts and telling
them (also some NetBSD people were interested) about my only problem
running these fixes (which is now solved too :-)
The version 2 support has been tested (client+server) against FreeBSD-2.0,
IRIX 5.3 and FreeBSD-current (using a loopback mount). The version 2 support
is stable AFAIK.
The version 3 support has been tested with a loopback mount and minimally
against an IRIX 5.3 server. It needs more testing and may have problems.
I have patched amd to support the new variable length filehandles although
it will still only use version 2 of the protocol.
Before booting a kernel with these changes, nfs clients will need to at least
build and install /usr/sbin/mount_nfs. Servers will need to build and
install /usr/sbin/mountd.
NFS diskless support is untested.
Obtained from: Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
