Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:27:25 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: moving NFSv4.1 client from projects to head Message-ID: <1751068041.1071962.1354498045662.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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Konstantin Belousov wrote: >On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 09:15:49PM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been working on NFSv4.1 client support for FreeBSD >> for some time now and known issues from testing at a >> Bakeathon last June have been resolved. The patch is >> rather big, but I believe it should not affect the >> client unless the new mount options: >> minorversion=1,pnfs >> are used for an nfsv4 mount. >> >> Since I don't believe that the new NFS client will be >> affected unless these new mount options are used, I think >> it could go into head now. On the other hand, there are few >> NFSv4.1 servers currently available, so it might not yet >> be widely useful. (See below for slides w.r.t. server availability.) >> >> How do folks feel about doing this in early December? >> >> Since it doesn't change any KBIs, it could also be MFC'd >> to stable/9. Would MFC'ing it to stable/9 make sense? >> >> For those interested in testing and/or reviewing it, >> the code is currently in: >> base/projects/nfsv4.1-client >> (It is purely a kernel patch.) >> Also, the current state of NFSv4.1 servers is roughly: >> http://www.pnfs.com/docs/LISA-11-pNFS-BoF-final.pdf >> >> Thanks in advance for any comments, rick >IMO, the earlier the change that you feel mature enough, hits the HEAD in >the HEAD x.0 cycle, the better. That said, would you mind to put a diff >somewhere to ease the review and testing ? Well, there is now a patch at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/nfsv4.1.patch It is just under 7,000lines, so you may not want to look at it, but whatever you can do with it would be appreciated, rickhome | help
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