From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: Status of NFS over IPv6
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:27:46 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I have some patches that add IPv6 support in the RPC client.  The server 
> is more complicated (how to deal with address-based export rules, and so 
> on).  There hasn't been much progress on the server side, but I think 
> Bull is still working on that.

OK, and they still conflict?

> [snip other useful info, thanks]

> While there is some interest in IPv6 among some of Linux's corporate 
> sponsors, there really isn't an overwhelming "killer" requirement for 
> IPv6, so there isn't much motivation to get all this completed.  I have 
> to admit I'm pretty burned out on all this because of how complicated it 
> has all become.  I'd be happy if someone stepped forward and volunteered 
> to help or take over the integration.

Well, all I can really provide is a useful test bed inside Debian. I doubt I
can get the kernel team to include NFS/IPv6-specific patches, but when it
comes to rpcbind, nfs-utils and the like, I'm sure we can work something out.
IOW, I don't think I can do much about the programming, but once stuff is
"80% there" we can at least provide an environment users can test stuff
relatively easy inside. (We already have quite good NFSv4 support
out-of-the-box.)

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