Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:54:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48575 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201604122054.u3CKsQ86040594@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Tue Apr 12 20:54:26 2016 New Revision: 48575 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48575 Log: Add NFS server report from Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 18:42:10 2016 (r48574) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 20:54:26 2016 (r48575) @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ </project> <project cat='doc'> + <icon>doc-mid.jpg</icon> + <title>Spanish FAQ and Chinese Porter's Handbook Translations</title> @@ -192,4 +194,45 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>NFS server</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Rick</given> + <common>Macklem</common> + </name> + <email>rmacklem@freebsd.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links></links> + + <body> + <p>A new option "-manage-gids" was added to the nfsuserd + daemon. This option tells the NFS server to use the list of + groups for a uid on the server and not the list of groups in + the NFS RPC request. Use of this option avoids the 16 group + limit for NFS RPCs using AUTH_SYS (the default).</p> + + <p>Work is ongoing with respect to development of pNFS support + for the NFS server using GlusterFS as a back end. This will + be a long term project with the eventual goal of allowing the + NFS server to scale beyond a single server system. Hopefully + it will be available for testing in late Spring 2016. pNFS + allows a NFSv4.1 client to do reads/writes directly to a data + server and not the NFS server.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Development of the pNFS server will be in need of testing + or it will never progress to a near production status. I + hope to have code available in FreeBSD's subversion projects + branch for testing in late spring 2016.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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