On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:08:55PM -0800, Jim Lieb wrote: > This is a follow-up agenda topic to the similar topic for LSF-2013. The goal > if this agenda item is to discuss the current status and to coordinate future > work in the area of kernel support for file servers such as Samba and NFS- > Ganesha. There is work in process based on discussions at the last meeting > that can be reported on. > > These issues are very important for the NFS-Ganesha project that with its V2.0 > release is being used by IBM, Red Hat, Panasas and others as their pNFS > server. These topics do not require presentations other than 1 or 2 slides to > keep discussion on topic. The goal is to clean up the rough edges and issues > of current work and focus on near term goals for work still to be done. > > Specifics: > > * New private locks to provide better semantics than Posix locks. Jeff Layton > has been working on this. > > * An extension to inotify() to control event reporting where nfs-ganesha, > samba, and local users/processes on the server access the same files. Jim Lieb > has been working on this and has submitted a patchset to the list. > > * Credentials switching to extend nfsd_setuser semantics to user-mode so > servers that need to do this operation can use it. There is an implementation > that in its current form still has some issues that need to be resolved based > on feedback on the list. > > * readdirplus. This is a carryover from last year. Status unknown but the > need is still there. > > * rich ACLs. Some work has been done but this too needs decisions and work. > This is especially important to NFSv4.1 and CIFS server projects. > > * Discussions with samba developers on strategies/solutions for mapping > credentials between NFSv4.x and SMB. > > I am willing to combine these specific issues with someone else's agenda topic > if it makes scheduling simpler. Ah, if this is on the agenda I'd like to be there to discuss Samba needs. We're already using pre-thread creds in Samba, but there are changes it would be very helpful to have. Cheers, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
