From owner-freebsd-fs Sun May 7 4:11:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 562AD37B60F for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 04:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12oOyF-000GhK-0Y; Sun, 7 May 2000 12:11:36 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA56977; Sun, 7 May 2000 12:06:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 12:08:30 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Bjoern Fischer Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFSv4 In-Reply-To: <20000506174054.A545@frolic.no-support.loc> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 May 2000, Bjoern Fischer wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an (experimental) NFSv4 implementation for FreeBSD out there? > Or does anyone plan to implement NFSv4 for FreeBSD? > > What are the biggest show stoppers for a straight forward > implementation of NFSv4 on FreeBSD? RPCSEC_GSS? Locking? Implmenting this would be a large job. I'm pretty sure it would be a bad idea to shoehorn it into the NFSv3 code for stability reasons. As far as I know no-one is working on this yet. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message