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Significant changes for nfs-utils 1.1.0 - March/April 2007

 - rpc.lockd is gone.  One 3 old kernel releases need it.
 - /sbin/{u,}mount.nfs{,4} are now installed so 'mount' will
   use these to mount nfs filesystems instead of internal code.
  + mount.nfs will check for 'statd' to be running when mounting
    a filesystem which requires it.  If it is not running it will
    run "/usr/sbin/start-statd" to try to start it.
    If statd is not running and cannot be started, mount.nfs will
    refuse to mount the filesystem and will suggest the 'nolock'
    option.
 - Substantial changes to statd
  + The 'notify' process that must happen at boot has been split
    into a separate program "sm-notify".  It ensures that it
    only runs once even if you restart statd.  This is correct
    behaviour.
  + statd stores state in the files in /var/lib/nfs/sm/ so that
    if you kill and restart it, it will restore that state and
    continue working correctly.
  + statd makes more use of DNS lookup and should handle
    multi-homed peers better.  In particular, files in
    /var/lib/nfs/sm/ are named with the Full Qualified Domain Name
    if available.
 - If you export a directory as 'crossmnt', all filesystems
   mounted beneath are automatically exported with the same
   options (unless explicitly exported with different options).
 - subtree_check is no-longer the default.  The default is now
   no_subtree_check.
 - By default the system 'rpcgen' is used while building
   nfs-utils rather than the internal one.
 - Exportfs will warn if you try to export a filesystem that does
   not support NFS export.
 - Comprehensive notes on startup dependencies have been added
   to the README file.