From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 14:06:30 2004 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 CA93D16A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:06:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B066B43D5C for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:06:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3DD1919E; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:06:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:06:21 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040106220621.GW19107@seekingfire.com> References: <20040106213554.8F0572091E@citi.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040106213554.8F0572091E@citi.umich.edu> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: Request: summary of NFSv4 status available anywhere? 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, 06 Jan 2004 22:06:30 -0000 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:35:54PM -0500, Jim Rees wrote: > I'm sorry we haven't been better about sharing our plans. No problem, I'm happy to see that the code is simply there :-) > We are holding back new code pending the release of FreeBSD 5.2, which will > be the first to incorporate our client. After that we'll be working on gss, > and hope to test a client with kerberos and maybe lipkey at Connectathon in > late Feb. Look for it to show up in the FreeBSD source tree shortly after > that. Ah, so the existing mounts_nfs4 doesn't have gss. I'll wait until after Feb to do any testing with it then. > Right now I'm working on some small cleanups. I want to have the v3 and v4 > clients both use the same rpc, so that v3 will get the benefits of rpcsec. > I want to fix the layering violations and backward references that currently > make it impossible to have completely separate v3 and v4 client modules. Interesting stuff. It sounds like v3 will get a bit of a dusting off in teh process. > There is still plenty of work to do before the client is fully functional. > You can use it, but as it is now you don't get many of the benefits of v4. > That will come later. Thanks for the update! -T -- "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein