nfs4 on FreeBSD

Marius Eriksen marius at monkey.org
Tue Oct 4 14:48:03 PDT 2005


i think there's some code lying around on the CITI webpage somewhere
where i implemented RPCSEC GSS for the freebsd nfsv4 client by page
flipping the assembled RPCs over to userland, and then sending them
from a daemon running there ... if anybody wants a starting point ..

marius.

On 10/4/05, Chuck Lever <cel at citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> Ivan Synyeokov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm playing with nfs4 under FreeBSD and I wonder is there any particular
> > plans to improve its support and have fully functional nfs4 client and
> > server in base or maybe ports?
> >
> > I've found that Rick's (ftp://ftp.cis.uoguelph.ca/pub/nfsv4/) work is
> > quite stable (I mean server part) on FreeBSD 6.0 Beta5, but client is
> > only available for OpenBSD. Rick, do you plan to port your client to
> > FreeBSD also?
> > On the other hand, lack of delegation and locking state features from
> > native FreeBSD6 client, prevent me from putting nfs4 in production.
> > So, I kindly regard if anybody clear the situation, and in any case I
> > could provide some testing.
> >
>
> hi ivan-
>
> i'm beginning to look at the FreeBSD NFS client to think about how to
> finish the nascent NFSv4 and RPCGSS implementation.  it's a slow start
> though.
>
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