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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt | 33 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 89e46d3dc64..aca4f823596 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -491,16 +491,6 @@ Who: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> ---------------------------- -What: access to nfsd auth cache through sys_nfsservctl or '.' files - in the 'nfsd' filesystem. -When: 3.0 -Why: This is a legacy interface which have been replaced by a more - dynamic cache. Continuing to maintain this interface is an - unnecessary burden. -Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> - ----------------------------- - What: Legacy, non-standard chassis intrusion detection interface. When: June 2011 Why: The adm9240, w83792d and w83793 hardware monitoring drivers have diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 7e4699146fe..653380793a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -338,21 +338,21 @@ fl_release_private: maybe no ----------------------- lock_manager_operations --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*fl_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); - void (*fl_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */ - int (*fl_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int); - void (*fl_release_private)(struct file_lock *); - void (*fl_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */ - int (*fl_change)(struct file_lock **, int); + int (*lm_compare_owner)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *); + void (*lm_notify)(struct file_lock *); /* unblock callback */ + int (*lm_grant)(struct file_lock *, struct file_lock *, int); + void (*lm_release_private)(struct file_lock *); + void (*lm_break)(struct file_lock *); /* break_lease callback */ + int (*lm_change)(struct file_lock **, int); locking rules: file_lock_lock may block -fl_compare_owner: yes no -fl_notify: yes no -fl_grant: no no -fl_release_private: maybe no -fl_break: yes no -fl_change yes no +lm_compare_owner: yes no +lm_notify: yes no +lm_grant: no no +lm_release_private: maybe no +lm_break: yes no +lm_change yes no --------------------------- buffer_head ----------------------------------- prototypes: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt index 04884914a1c..092fad92a3f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt @@ -39,27 +39,17 @@ interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues: from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos on the backchannel correctly). - - no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of - trunking, but this is a mandatory feature, and its use is - recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure - timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts - have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the RFC.) - Therefore, lack of this feature may cause future clients to - fail. - Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be available and clients confused by the incomplete implementation may fail. - - Server reboot recovery is unsupported; if the server reboots, - clients may fail. - We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for servers to support this, though no clients use it yet. - Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as - DESTROY_CLIENTID, FREE_STATEID, SECINFO_NO_NAME, and - TEST_STATEID, are not currently used by clients, but will be + DESTROY_CLIENTID, are not currently used by clients, but will be (and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause @@ -69,8 +59,9 @@ In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4 implementation: - Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or - unlinked, a client holding a delegation may continue to - indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old name. + unlinked by a local process, a client holding a delegation may + continue to indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old + name. The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional @@ -99,7 +90,7 @@ Operations +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+ | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | -NS | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | +I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | @@ -111,7 +102,7 @@ NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | NS | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 | I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 | I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 | -NS | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | +I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | P | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | P | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | @@ -145,14 +136,14 @@ NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 | | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 | | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 | -NS | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | +I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 | I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 | | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 | | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A | | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 | -NS | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | +I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | @@ -206,12 +197,6 @@ CREATE_SESSION: SEQUENCE: * no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional) -nfsv4.1 COMPOUND rules: -The following cases aren't supported yet: -* Enforcing of NFS4ERR_NOT_ONLY_OP for: BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION, CREATE_SESSION, - DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID. -* DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request. - Nonstandard compound limitations: * No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may @@ -219,3 +204,5 @@ Nonstandard compound limitations: negotiation. * No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per compound. + +See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues. |