[nfsv4] NFSv4.1 FreeBSD client for testing

Trond Myklebust Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com
Fri Sep 9 02:08:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:45 -0400, Rick Macklem wrote: 
> First off, I hope no one minds the crosspost, but I thought
> some of the FreeBSD crowd might be interested...
> 
> I've put a patch against FreeBSD9.0 (currently Beta2, but I don't
> think the NFS client code will change before the final release, so
> hopefully the patch will continue to apply) up in the hopes that
> server vendors (and anyone else, of course) will use it for testing.
> The main difference between what I tested during the June Bakeathon
> and this patch is support for the back channel. It does not yet have
> any support for pNFS. I'll need to figure out a way to set up a DS for
> testing before I can work on that.
> 
> If you are interested, the patch is at:
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/nfsv4.1-client
> 
> Hopefully the Readme covers the basic setup.
> 
> Good luck with it, if you try it, rick

Cool... Are you going to be attending the Bakeathon next month? If not,
can you supply a VM or something like that so that we can try to do some
FreeBSD client testing against the various server implementations out
there?

Cheers
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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