From: Chuck Lever Subject: [PATCH 0/4] NFS mounting with raw IPv6 server hostnames Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20080617181622.3215.61295.stgit@ellison.1015granger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: trond.myklebust@netapp.com Return-path: Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:64326 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754756AbYFQSRh (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:37 -0400 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Trond- Something meatier today. These four patches introduce the ability to mount NFS servers using a raw IPv6 address. This support requires the ability to handle colons in the passed-in server hostname, and the ability to handle an IPv6 interface identifier in the passed-in server hostname. IPv6 addresses contain colons. A colon is also used to separate the server name from the export path. By enclosing an IPv6 address inside square brackets we effectively escape the colons in the IPv6 address and allow them to pass unrecognized through the device name parser. As an added bonus, I also include the patch that changes nfs_parse_server_address() to take a name length. This allows the passed-in address string to have no '\0'-termination, which will help us support IPv6 for NFSv4 referrals. Please consider these for 2.6.27. --- Chuck Lever (4): NFS: handle interface identifiers in incoming IPv6 addresses NFS: Add string length argument to nfs_parse_server_address NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation NFS: Use common device name parsing logic for NFSv4 and NFSv2/v3 fs/nfs/super.c | 336 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) -- Chuck Lever chu ckd otl eve rat ora cle dot com