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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt index 05d81cbcb2e..5920fe26e6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt @@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. Use your user-mode nfs-utils to set this up; see rpc.nfsd(8) +(Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and +"-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old +kernels must turn 4.1 on or off *before* turning support for version 4 +on or off; rpc.nfsd does this correctly.) + The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based on the latest NFSv4.1 Internet Draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-29 @@ -25,6 +30,49 @@ are still under development out of tree. See http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_prototype_design for more information. +The current implementation is intended for developers only: while it +does support ordinary file operations on clients we have tested against +(including the linux client), it is incomplete in ways which may limit +features unexpectedly, cause known bugs in rare cases, or cause +interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues: + + - gss support is questionable: currently mounts with kerberos + 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 failure, 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 draft.) + 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 + (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 + interoperability failures. + +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. + The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional (OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI) @@ -142,6 +190,12 @@ NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 | Implementation notes: +DELEGPURGE: +* mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or + CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that + persist across client reboots). Thus we need not implement this for + now. + EXCHANGE_ID: * only SP4_NONE state protection supported * implementation ids are ignored |