From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/112] What's in the NFS queue for linux-2.6.25 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:34:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4A2005C9-DD9B-4F3E-AF89-B24EDBEB2EBF@oracle.com> References: <1201280354.24283.70.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20080125173537.GA22782@uio.no> <1201285561.24283.109.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Cc: NFS list To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Return-path: Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:60547 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755366AbYAYSgi (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:36:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1201285561.24283.109.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 18:35 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:59:13AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: >>> * More IPv6 cleanups from Chuck. NFSv4 support for IPv6 >>> should now >>> almost be complete (IPv6 callback support is still not >>> ready). >> >> Does this mean we can start beta testing these features out in the >> distributions now? Is nfs-utils (in particular nfsd/mountd) ready? > > No. I'm talking about the kernel client support only. Server > support is > a different matter... > > I believe Chuck still has to make a change to the nfs-utils 'mount' in > order to make it capable of resolving IPv6 DNS lookups. There are some missing glibc/tirpc pieces required for the mount command to support binding IPv6 sockets. I'm still sorting things out, but I expect to have something available for testing Linux NFSv4 mounting against IPv6-enabled servers (Solaris, at least) soon. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com