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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1bd0d0c0517..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,222 +0,0 @@ -NFSv4.1 Server Implementation - -Server support for minorversion 1 can be controlled using the -/proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. The string output returned -by reading this file will contain either "+4.1" or "-4.1" -correspondingly. - -Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is disabled by default. -It can be enabled at run time by writing the string "+4.1" to -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 - -From the many new features in NFSv4.1 the current implementation -focuses on the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions, providing -"exactly once" semantics and better control and throttling of the -resources allocated for each client. - -Other NFSv4.1 features, Parallel NFS operations in particular, -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 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 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) -in minor version 1. The first column indicates the operations that -are not supported yet by the linux server implementation. - -The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows: - pNFS Parallel NFS - FDELG File Delegations - DDELG Directory Delegations - -The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status. - I Implemented NFSv4.1 operations. - NS Not Supported. - NS* unimplemented optional feature. - P pNFS features implemented out of tree. - PNS pNFS features that are not supported yet (out of tree). - -Operations - - +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ - | Operation | REQ, REC, | Feature | Definition | - | | OPT, or | (REQ, REC, | | - | | MNI | or OPT) | | - +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ - | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | -NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | -NS | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | - | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | - | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | - | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | -I | CREATE_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.36 | -NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | - | DELEGRETURN | OPT | FDELG, | Section 18.6 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -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 | - | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | -P | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | -P | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | - | GETFH | REQ | | Section 18.8 | -NS*| GET_DIR_DELEGATION | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 18.39 | -P | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 | -P | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 | -P | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 | - | LINK | OPT | | Section 18.9 | - | LOCK | REQ | | Section 18.10 | - | LOCKT | REQ | | Section 18.11 | - | LOCKU | REQ | | Section 18.12 | - | LOOKUP | REQ | | Section 18.13 | - | LOOKUPP | REQ | | Section 18.14 | - | NVERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.15 | - | OPEN | REQ | | Section 18.16 | -NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | - | OPEN_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | - | OPEN_DOWNGRADE | REQ | | Section 18.18 | - | PUTFH | REQ | | Section 18.19 | - | PUTPUBFH | REQ | | Section 18.20 | - | PUTROOTFH | REQ | | Section 18.21 | - | READ | REQ | | Section 18.22 | - | READDIR | REQ | | Section 18.23 | - | READLINK | OPT | | Section 18.24 | -NS | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 | - | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER | MNI | | N/A | - | REMOVE | REQ | | Section 18.25 | - | RENAME | REQ | | Section 18.26 | - | RENEW | MNI | | N/A | - | 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, | - | | | 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 | - | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | -NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | - | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | - -Callback Operations - - +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+ - | Operation | REQ, REC, | Feature | Definition | - | | OPT, or | (REQ, REC, | | - | | MNI | or OPT) | | - +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+ - | CB_GETATTR | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1 | -P | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 | -NS*| CB_NOTIFY | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4 | -P | CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 | -NS*| CB_NOTIFY_LOCK | OPT | | Section 20.11 | -NS*| CB_PUSH_DELEG | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5 | - | CB_RECALL | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.2 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -NS*| CB_RECALL_ANY | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.6 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -NS | CB_RECALL_SLOT | REQ | | Section 20.8 | -NS*| CB_RECALLABLE_OBJ_AVAIL | OPT | DDELG, pNFS | Section 20.7 | - | | | (REQ) | | -I | CB_SEQUENCE | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.9 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | -NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 | - | | | DDELG, pNFS | | - | | | (REQ) | | - +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+ - -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 - -CREATE_SESSION: -* backchannel attributes are ignored -* backchannel security parameters are ignored - -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 - fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel - negotiation. -* No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per - compound. |