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=== A Wish List ===
=== A Wish List ===
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* Mount [[MountNotes]]
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* Mount [[MountNotes|notes]]
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** Scalable mounting (more efficient use of network resources)
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** Scalable mounting (more efficient use of network resources; mountd connection caching)
** Rewrite nfs(5)
** Rewrite nfs(5)
** Real unit testing
** Real unit testing
** Useful error reporting
** Useful error reporting
** Complete internationalization
** Complete internationalization
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** Proper implementation of break-back retries
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** Support for IPv6
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** Support for server failover options
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** Testing of -o remount
* Rebuild the NFS server and client XDR layer from the ground up
* Rebuild the NFS server and client XDR layer from the ground up

Revision as of 21:58, 15 August 2007

Chuck Lever

My personal linux kernel git repo is here .

See also my Oracle web page and the NFSv4 "to do" list

Articles and Notes

A Wish List

  • Mount notes
    • Scalable mounting (more efficient use of network resources; mountd connection caching)
    • Rewrite nfs(5)
    • Real unit testing
    • Useful error reporting
    • Complete internationalization
    • Proper implementation of break-back retries
    • Support for IPv6
    • Support for server failover options
    • Testing of -o remount
  • Rebuild the NFS server and client XDR layer from the ground up
    • More complete type checking and error reporting
    • Each function called with a simplified virtual API
    • All functions re-entrant so we can remove the BKL
  • Construct productized performance tools based on /proc/self/mounstats
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