[GTALUG] The current state of NFS

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:

> My understanding of NFSv4 is that it is not NFS.  It is something new
> and complicated that is way beyond what previous NFS versions did.
> Sure it's called NFS, but it's different.

It is quite different but since NFS 4.1 it has looked the same at least. 
I'm able to switch between NFS & NFS4 in /etc/fstab and remount 
filesystems using a different version of the protocol.  I've had to do 
this for debugging a few times.

> I found something that seems to indicate it is possible to make NFSv4
> run without kerberos and all that:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00476.html

I've run 4.1 without Kerberos for years.

Rob