2008-06-24 20:33:53

by Chuck Lever III

Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Support parsing multiple security flavors

Hi Trond-

The following four patches implement support in the NFS client's mount option
parser for multiple security flavors via "sec=flavor:flavor:flavor:..." This
replicates similar support in the legacy (non text-based) mount.nfs command.

Since the NFS client itself doesn't support multiple security flavors at the
moment, these have been build-tested only.

Please consider them for 2.6.27.

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Chuck Lever (4):
NFS: text-based mounts should support multiple security flavors
NFS4: Set security flavor default for NFSv4 mounts like other defaults
NFS: Set security flavor default for NFSv2/3 mounts like other defaults
NFS: Refactor logic for parsing NFS security flavor mount options


fs/nfs/internal.h | 4 +
fs/nfs/super.c | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
2 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)

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Chuck Lever
chu ckl eve rat ora cle dot com

2008-06-24 20:51:04

by Myklebust, Trond

Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Support parsing multiple security flavors

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 16:33 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Trond-
>
> The following four patches implement support in the NFS client's mount option
> parser for multiple security flavors via "sec=flavor:flavor:flavor:..." This
> replicates similar support in the legacy (non text-based) mount.nfs command.
>
> Since the NFS client itself doesn't support multiple security flavors at the
> moment, these have been build-tested only.
>
> Please consider them for 2.6.27.

Are you planning to add support for security negotiation or multiple
security flavours in time for 2.6.27? If not, I suggest we delay this
until such functionality exists.

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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http://www.netapp.com