Re: nfsd v3 & nfsd v4 server on same host

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 04:40:07AM -0800, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM void <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > As subject - is this possible temporarily?
> > Sure. You will need to configure the NFSv4 bits..
> > - Add a "V4:" line to /etc/exports (that is needed as
> >   well as the sharenfs property.
> > - Either choose to do uids in "strings", which is probably
> >   the easiest unless you are doing kerberos mounts or
> >   run nfsuserd (but choose one, not both of these).
> >   Setting vfs.nfs.enable_uidtostring and vfs.nfsd.enable_stringtouid
> >   to one and not running the nfsuserd chooses the first case.
> > - set nfsv4_server_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, but don't set
> >   nfsv4_server_only
> >
> > If you've done the above, do:
> > # sysctl -a | fgrep vfs.nfsd | fgrep vers
> > - and you should see minvers set to 2 or 3 and maxvers set to 4
>
> Care to add this to the man page, please?
nfs_server_enable, nfsv4_server_enable and nfsv4_server_only
are documented in "man rc.conf".

Are you referring to "man sysctl"?
(To be honest, none of the NFS sysctls are in it.)

rick

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