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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/nfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 20 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting index 87019d2..09994c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting @@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ For a filesystem to be exportable it must: 1/ provide the filehandle fragment routines described below. 2/ make sure that d_splice_alias is used rather than d_add when ->lookup finds an inode for a given parent and name. - Typically the ->lookup routine will end with a: + + If inode is NULL, d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) is eqivalent to + + d_add(dentry, inode), NULL + + Similarly, d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err) + + Typically the ->lookup routine will simply end with a: return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); } diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt index 9c8fd61..120fd3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/idmapper.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ request-key will find the first matching line and corresponding program. In this case, /some/other/program will handle all uid lookups and /usr/sbin/nfs.idmap will handle gid, user, and group lookups. -See <file:Documentation/security/keys-request-keys.txt> for more information +See <file:Documentation/security/keys-request-key.txt> for more information about the request-key function. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt index 0488491..092fad9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt @@ -39,27 +39,17 @@ interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues: from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos on the backchannel correctly). - - no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of - trunking, but this is a mandatory feature, and its use is - recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure - timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts - have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the RFC.) - Therefore, lack of this feature may cause future clients to - fail. - Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be available and clients confused by the incomplete implementation may fail. - - Server reboot recovery is unsupported; if the server reboots, - clients may fail. - We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for servers to support this, though no clients use it yet. - Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as - DESTROY_CLIENTID, FREE_STATEID, SECINFO_NO_NAME, and - TEST_STATEID, are not currently used by clients, but will be + DESTROY_CLIENTID, are not currently used by clients, but will be (and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause @@ -69,8 +59,9 @@ In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4 implementation: - Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or - unlinked, a client holding a delegation may continue to - indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old name. + unlinked by a local process, a client holding a delegation may + continue to indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old + name. The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional @@ -99,7 +90,7 @@ Operations +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | -NS | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | +I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | @@ -111,7 +102,7 @@ NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | NS | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 | I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 | I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 | -NS | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | +I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | P | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | P | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | @@ -145,14 +136,14 @@ NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 | | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 | | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 | -NS | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | +I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 | I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 | | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 | | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A | | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 | -NS | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | +I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | @@ -206,12 +197,6 @@ CREATE_SESSION: SEQUENCE: * no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional) -nfsv4.1 COMPOUND rules: -The following cases aren't supported yet: -* Enforcing of NFS4ERR_NOT_ONLY_OP for: BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION, CREATE_SESSION, - DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID. -* DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request. - Nonstandard compound limitations: * No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may @@ -219,3 +204,5 @@ Nonstandard compound limitations: negotiation. * No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per compound. + +See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt index 90c71c6..ffdd9d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ They depend on various facilities being available: cdrecord. e.g. - cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 arch/i386/boot/image.iso + cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 arch/x86/boot/image.iso For more information on isolinux, including how to create bootdisks for prebuilt kernels, see http://syslinux.zytor.com/ |