NFS4 testing / functionality

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:38:10AM +0200, Frank Victor Fischer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've just deployed a production NFS4 installation with the following 
> characteristics:
> *Server is a Quad Opteron SLES10 box running the nfs, ldap and kerberos 
> server
> *clients are all SUSE Linux 10.1 (SLED10 may be upcomning), older 
> versions failed. autofs is used.
> *mounts are done with sec=sys and sec=krb5. krb5i and krb5p might be 
> implemented later.
> 
> So if you there is need for some testing (that could for example be done 
> over a weekend) or feedback, please reply. Crash-testing of the server 
> is unfortunately out of the question :)

Hi Victor,

>From a project point of view, one thing we've been looking for is a case
study, that could be used to demonstrate that nfsv4 is being deployed
into production.  Could you tell us the name of the company that has the
production NFSv4 installation?  Can you explain why nfsv4 was chosen (as
opposed to v3) and what benefits you've gained so far?

>From a testing point of view, autofs is something that has not received
a huge degree of testing with nfsv4.  Unfortunately, I don't know of
people actively maintaining autofs, but it would probably be of great
benefit if you could keep an eye out for errors with it, and record them
into the NFSv4 bugzilla (http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org).

Thanks,
Bryce