[NFS] Status of NFS over IPv6

[Le Rouzic]

Aurélien Charbon a écrit :

>Chuck Lever wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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>The latest server patches are on our web page. I have upgraded it.
>http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/patches/ipv6-server/IPv6_patchset.php
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>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 ?
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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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.
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Some basic tests have been also done on the submitted Aurélien'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...)

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>We hope the interest of community about IPv6 will grow.
>Feel free to send comments on the code.
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 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

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