Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:35:45 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS4 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <1175520945.44258.8.camel@jill.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20070402120048.GA19688@citi.umich.edu> References: <1175481486.39754.2.camel@jill.exit.com> <20070402120048.GA19688@citi.umich.edu>
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On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 07:00 -0500, Jim Rees wrote: > Kerberized nfs does not necessarily mean v4. But it is starting to look > like v4 might eventually become widely adopted. The linux, Sun, and IBM > implementations all work and interoperate. 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.) > We did a v4 client and it's in the tree now, but sadly neglected. It would > take some work to make it usable. Rick Macklem has a server that works > quite well. I don't know what would be involved in putting it in the tree. Yeah, I'm aware of both the v4 client in the tree and Rick's server. > The big thing missing from our client is security (kerberos). We have a > later client, available on our web site, that does security but it would > need some work too. 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? > No one is working on this right now as far as I know. Yeah, that much seems clear. Sigh. I guess that means if I want it I'll have to do it myself... -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar*
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