From: Rajesham Gajjela Subject: nfs over ipv6 support Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <956157.57545.qm@web30507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1205414790-1710-1-git-send-email-bhalevy@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: aime.le-rouzic@bull.net, aurelien.charbon-Z51IpKcfGtLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org, gilles.quillard@bull.net To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from web30507.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.200.120]:39730 "HELO web30507.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752409AbYCMOPK (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:15:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1205414790-1710-1-git-send-email-bhalevy@panasas.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Did any body test nfs (v2 and v3) over ipv6 ? do you guys claim "this feature suppose to work" ? It did not work for me. Here are the details of experiments I did (for me server and client is same): 1) Kernel side : Linux-2.6.12-5 + linux-2.6.12-rc6-CITI_NFS4_ALL-1.dif + Chuck Lever Transport Patch (http://oss.oracle.com/~cel/linux-2.6/2.6.12/release-notes.html) 2) User land (tools) side: libtirpc-0.1.7-1 + rpcbind-0.1.4 + nfs-utils-1.1.1 + quota-3.12-5 (Ref: http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/patches/nfsv4_ipv6-2) 3) rpcbind suppose to recognize ipv6/ipv4 tcp/udp protocols (after modifying /etc/netconfig). I did softlink of /usr/bin/rpcbind to /sbin/portmap). Then did "service portmap restart". Then "service nfs restart". NFS services failed. syslog messages: Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 nfs: Starting NFS services: succeeded Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 kernel: RPC: transport (2/17) not supported Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 last message repeated 2 times Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 nfsd[12453]: nfssvc: Input/output error Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 nfs: rpc.nfsd startup failed Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '/proc/net/rpc/nfs4.idtoname/channel' failed: errno 2 (No such file or directory) Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 rpc.idmapd: nfsdreopen: Opening '/proc/net/rpc/nfs4.nametoid/channel' failed: errno 2 (No such file or directory) Mar 13 19:32:20 DXi5500-12345 rpcidmapd: rpc.idmapd -SIGHUP succeeded ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs