mark NFS/TCP not EXPERIMENTAL

PATCH New Greg Banks 1 participant 1 message Jun 8, 2004

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Greg Banks

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2004-06-08 01:29 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 mark NFS/TCP not EXPERIMENTAL

G'day,

NFS/TCP has been used widely for a long time now, and is now enabled by many distros and typically recommended for lossy or congested networks. This patch removes the EXPERIMENTAL tag, updates the help text, and changes arch defconfigs to set it by default (note that several already did so).

arch/alpha/defconfig +1 -1

Index: linux/arch/alpha/defconfig
===================================================================
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
 CONFIG_NFSD=m
 CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
 # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set
-# CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set
+CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD=m
 CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
 CONFIG_EXPORTFS=m

arch/i386/defconfig +1 -1

Index: linux/arch/i386/defconfig
===================================================================
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
 # CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO is not set
 CONFIG_NFSD=y
 # CONFIG_NFSD_V3 is not set
-# CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set
+CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD=y
 CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
 CONFIG_SUNRPC=y

arch/ia64/defconfig +1 -1

Index: linux/arch/ia64/defconfig
===================================================================
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO=y
 CONFIG_NFSD=y
 CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
 # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set
-# CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set
+CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
 CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y

arch/ppc/defconfig +1 -1

Index: linux/arch/ppc/defconfig
===================================================================
@@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
 CONFIG_NFSD=y
 CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
 # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set
-# CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set
+CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
 CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y

arch/s390/defconfig +1 -1

Index: linux/arch/s390/defconfig
===================================================================
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
 CONFIG_NFSD=y
 CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
 # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set
-# CONFIG_NFSD_TCP is not set
+CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD=y
 CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
 CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y

fs/Kconfig +6 -4

Index: linux/fs/Kconfig
===================================================================
@@ -1450,11 +1450,13 @@ config NFSD_V4
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
 config NFSD_TCP
-	bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on NFSD && EXPERIMENTAL
+	bool "Provide NFS server over TCP support"
+	depends on NFSD
+	default y
 	help
-	  Enable NFS service over TCP connections.  This the officially
-	  still experimental, but seems to work well.
+	  If you want your NFS server to support TCP connections, say Y here.
+	  TCP connections usually perform better than the default UDP when
+	  the network is lossy or congested.  If unsure, say Y.
 
 config ROOT_NFS
 	bool "Root file system on NFS"

Greg.

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Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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