From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262979AbTJJPzk (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:55:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262980AbTJJPzj (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:55:39 -0400 Received: from snerble.cc.purdue.edu ([128.210.189.21]:48596 "EHLO snerble.fmepnet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262979AbTJJPzR (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:55:17 -0400 From: Michael Shuey Reply-To: shuey@fmepnet.org Organization: fmepnet.org To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Subject: Re: Misc NFSv4 (was Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:55:10 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031010143553.GA28795@mail.shareable.org> <16262.53512.249701.158271@charged.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <16262.53512.249701.158271@charged.uio.no> Cc: Linux Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310101055.12626.shuey@fmepnet.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 10 October 2003 10:32 am, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The client implementation in 2.6.0 is still lacking several important > features, including locking, ACLs, delegation support and recovery of > state (in case of server reboot or network partitions). I'm hoping > Andrew/Linus will allow me to send updates once the early 2.6.x > codefreeze period is over. How about other features? In particular, do the client/server do authentication (krb5? lipkey/spkm3?), integrity and privacy? Also, are any patches on Citi's site useful anymore? I see patches for 2.6.0-test1, but nothing more recent. Have they been folded into the main tree? > That said, I definitely encourage people to test out the existing code > for stability, and I will be offering an 'NFS_ALL' series with those > features that are missing from the main tree as and when I judge they > are approaching release quality. Neato! Those of us with hordes of machines using Linux's NFS appreciate the extra effort. -- Mike Shuey