From: Le Rouzic Subject: Re: [NFS] Status of NFS over IPv6 Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:33:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4688E296.2040101@bull.net> References: <20070629123747.GA1034@uio.no> <46858153.8060109@oracle.com> <4688C70C.2050801@ext.bull.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: NFSv4 ML , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4688C70C.2050801@ext.bull.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfsv4-bounces@linux-nfs.org Errors-To: nfsv4-bounces@linux-nfs.org List-ID: Aur=E9lien Charbon a =E9crit : >Chuck Lever wrote: > > = > >>>I'd very much like to be able to sew all of this together at some point, >>>but it's very hard to get a decent overview of it all. Does anyone = >>>have a >>>"current status" or "plans for the near feature" summary? >>> = >>> >>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. >> = >> > >The latest server patches are on our web page. I have upgraded it. >http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/patches/ipv6-server/IPv6_patchset.php > >It includes missing parts of code. I have started from a 2.6.21 kernel + = >Chuck patchset. >I have send them to Bruce few weeks ago. Bruce did you received the URL = >of new patches ? > > = > >>Steve Dickson has added Bull's rpcbind (replacement for portmap) to = >>Fedora 7, but there is some disagreement about whether to use a = >>complete replacement, like rpcbind, or whether to add the needed = >>support to the existing portmap code, in general. >> >>Bull has announced a test plan for user-space RPC libraries, although = >>I haven't had a moment to look through it. Bull should be providing = >>testing resources once we have all of this integrated. >> >> = >> >A student is developing a RPC/TI-RPC test suite. TI-RPC and RPCbind = >adoption by the community has been discussed on the mailing list few = >weeks ago. > > = > You can visit our project web page for more information and find design = documents at http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/rpc_testsuite.php >>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. >> = >> Some basic tests have been also done on the submitted Aur=E9lien's patchs and we will be running the robustness tests we are regularly doing for ipv4. See also at http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/rpc_testsuite.php for this list of tests (cthon04, ffsb, fsx...) > >We hope the interest of community about IPv6 will grow. >Feel free to send comments on the code. > = > Some customers are already asking it but were waiting of its availibity. There are also products based on NFSV4 features which are interested in. Cheers > = > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs >> = >> >> = >> > > > = > -- = ----------------------------------------------------------------- Company : Bull, Architect of an Open World TM (www.bull.com) Name : Aime Le Rouzic = Mail : Bull - BP 208 - 38432 Echirolles Cedex - France E-Mail : aime.le-rouzic@bull.net Phone : 33 (4) 76.29.75.51 Fax : 33 (4) 76.29.75.18 ----------------------------------------------------------------- =