From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 08:26:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34F816A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from citi.umich.edu (citi.umich.edu [141.211.133.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199B543FBF for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rees@citi.umich.edu) Received: from citi.umich.edu (dumaguete.citi.umich.edu [141.211.133.51]) by citi.umich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59842080C for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:26:03 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Jim Rees Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:26:03 -0500 Sender: rees@citi.umich.edu Message-Id: <20031118162603.A59842080C@citi.umich.edu> Subject: NFSv4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:26:05 -0000 You may have noticed that there is now an NFS v4 client in the kernel. It was written at the Center for Information Technology Integration at the University of Michigan by me and several others. I would welcome any comments, questions, or suggestions you might have. Unfortunately, servers are hard to come by. There is no FreeBSD server. There is a server in linux 2.6, and one in the Network Appliance filer. There is one available for OpenBSD 2.8. Hummingbird has one for Windows. Things I'll be working on in the next few days: - man pages for idmapd and mount_nfs4 - make it possible to build a v4 module separate from v3 Right now there is no security, but it will be coming soon. NFSv4 uses gss-rpc, with kerberos and lipkey (spkm) mechanisms. You can find more info here: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/