[nfsv4] NFSv4.1 FreeBSD client for testing

Rick Macklem rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
Mon Sep 12 00:56:28 UTC 2011


Thomas Haynes wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> 
> I can run one, I got pretty good at it for a while for some testing.
> :->
> 
Thanks for volunteering Tom ;-)

I'll admit I might not even be able to read email daily during the
Bakeathon, since I'll be "on the road", but I will try to do so, when
Tom finds issues.

rick

> 
> 
> > Cheers
> >  Trond
> > --
> > Trond Myklebust
> > Linux NFS client maintainer
> >
> > NetApp
> > Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com
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> >
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