NFSv4 server running on RHEL 5.1

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:41:23PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:39:28PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:26:00PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > > Ido Levy wrote:
> > > > I am willing to run NFSv4 server on Linux RHEL 5.1.
> > > I've been running both the client (on my desktop) and 
> > > the server (as my server) for quite a while now... without 
> > > major issues... 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Are the nfs packages that ships with RHEL 5.1 provide a stable solution for
> > > > NFSv4 server or should I use
> > > > the recommended configuration in the following link:
> > > > http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/  under "Last tested stable configuration"
> > > You could wait until until the 5.2 update release which should be 
> > > out in a few weeks... but to truly be on the bleeding edge you could
> > > try using either Bull's or CITT's -ALL patch sets... 
> > 
> > I've been really bad about keeping up the CITI-ALL patches, actually.
> > I'll try to start that up again....  For now you're better off with the
> > latest mainline.
> 
> Someone should maintain some Red Hat-style RPM's of the bleeding edge
> stuff. :-)

I seem to remember Fedora/Rawhide having an rpm that tracked the latest
mainline (maybe even with regular git snapshots?).

Err, and actually note that the above is rather kernel-centric.  I think
kwc's been releasing nfs-utils CITI_ALL patches more regularly.

The CITI_ALL kernel patches I've put out lately have just been a merge
between Trond's and my git trees, which is stuff we expect to be in
Linus's tree within the next month or two.

--b.