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nfsd: revise 4.1 status documentation
Some small updates, a caveat about the minorversion control interface, and an attempt to put missing features in context. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this
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control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. Use your user-mode
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nfs-utils to set this up; see rpc.nfsd(8)
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(Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and
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"-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old
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kernels must turn 4.1 on or off *before* turning support for version 4
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on or off; rpc.nfsd does this correctly.)
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The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based
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on the latest NFSv4.1 Internet Draft:
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-29
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@ -25,6 +30,49 @@ are still under development out of tree.
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See http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_prototype_design
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for more information.
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The current implementation is intended for developers only: while it
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does support ordinary file operations on clients we have tested against
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(including the linux client), it is incomplete in ways which may limit
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features unexpectedly, cause known bugs in rare cases, or cause
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interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues:
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- gss support is questionable: currently mounts with kerberos
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from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really
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conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos
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on the backchannel correctly).
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- no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of
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trunking, but this is a mandatory failure, and its use is
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recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure
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timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts
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have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the draft.)
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Therefore, lack of this feature may cause future clients to
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fail.
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- Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss
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support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that
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callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be
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available and clients confused by the incomplete
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implementation may fail.
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- Server reboot recovery is unsupported; if the server reboots,
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clients may fail.
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- We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared
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client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering
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with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for
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servers to support this, though no clients use it yet.
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- Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as
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DESTROY_CLIENTID, FREE_STATEID, SECINFO_NO_NAME, and
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TEST_STATEID, are not currently used by clients, but will be
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(and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and
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clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the
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case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause
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interoperability failures.
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In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4
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implementation:
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- Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or
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unlinked, a client holding a delegation may continue to
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indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old name.
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The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists
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the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional
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(OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI)
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@ -142,6 +190,12 @@ NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 |
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Implementation notes:
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DELEGPURGE:
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* mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or
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CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that
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persist across client reboots). Thus we need not implement this for
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now.
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EXCHANGE_ID:
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* only SP4_NONE state protection supported
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* implementation ids are ignored
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