1 Significant changes for nfs-utils 1.1.0 - March/April 2007
3 - rpc.lockd is gone. One 3 old kernel releases need it.
4 - /sbin/{u,}mount.nfs{,4} are now installed so 'mount' will
5 use these to mount nfs filesystems instead of internal code.
6 + mount.nfs will check for 'statd' to be running when mounting
7 a filesystem which requires it. If it is not running it will
8 run "/usr/sbin/start-statd" to try to start it.
9 If statd is not running and cannot be started, mount.nfs will
10 refuse to mount the filesystem and will suggest the 'nolock'
12 - Substantial changes to statd
13 + The 'notify' process that must happen at boot has been split
14 into a separate program "sm-notify". It ensures that it
15 only runs once even if you restart statd. This is correct
17 + statd stores state in the files in /var/lib/nfs/sm/ so that
18 if you kill and restart it, it will restore that state and
19 continue working correctly.
20 + statd makes more use of DNS lookup and should handle
21 multi-homed peers better. In particular, files in
22 /var/lib/nfs/sm/ are named with the Full Qualified Domain Name
24 - If you export a directory as 'crossmnt', all filesystems
25 mounted beneath are automatically exported with the same
26 options (unless explicitly exported with different options).
27 - subtree_check is no-longer the default. The default is now
29 - By default the system 'rpcgen' is used while building
30 nfs-utils rather than the internal one.
31 - Exportfs will warn if you try to export a filesystem that does
32 not support NFS export.
33 - Comprehensive notes on startup dependencies have been added
36 - A new option, -n, was added to rpc.gssd which specifies that
37 accesses by root should not use 'machine credentials' when
38 accessing NFS file systems mounted with Kerberos. Using this
39 option allows the root user to access the NFS space using any
40 Kerberos principal, rather than always using the machine
41 credentials. However, its use also requires that root manually
42 authenticate before attempting a mount with Kerberos.
44 When rpc.gssd uses machine credentials, the selection algorithm has
45 been changed. Instead of simply using the first "nfs/*" key in the
46 keytab, the keytab is now searched for keys in the following