Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:00:30 -0500 From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> To: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS4 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070402140030.GA16107@citi.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <1175520945.44258.8.camel@jill.exit.com> References: <1175481486.39754.2.camel@jill.exit.com> <20070402120048.GA19688@citi.umich.edu> <1175520945.44258.8.camel@jill.exit.com>
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Frank Mayhar wrote: Hmm. It was my impression that the rpcsec_gss stuff was only for NFS4. I take it that my impression was wrong? (I guess I had better double- check and make sure that it's really NFS4 that is needed, and not kerberized NFS3.) That's correct, but there is an earlier non-gss kerberized v3 protocol. I believe at one time there were implementations in bsd and linux, but these are being removed for lack of interest and to push people to v4. I can't find any traces of it in FreeBSD but parts of it are still in OpenBSD. I have never used it and don't know if it works. I take it that the later client is a descendant of the one that is in the FreeBSD tree? That might be a place to start. Has it been used at all? It was intended to be portable and at one time ran on Darwin, Open, and FreeBSD. It was a very clever design by Marius Eriksen, done here at CITI, that did most of the rpc work in a user daemon without adding unnecessary user-to-kernel data copies. No one is using it now as far as I know.
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