On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:17 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi Trond- > > Something meatier today. > > These four patches introduce the ability to mount NFS servers using a raw > IPv6 address. This support requires the ability to handle colons in the > passed-in server hostname, and the ability to handle an IPv6 interface > identifier in the passed-in server hostname. > > IPv6 addresses contain colons. A colon is also used to separate the server > name from the export path. By enclosing an IPv6 address inside square > brackets we effectively escape the colons in the IPv6 address and allow them > to pass unrecognized through the device name parser. > > As an added bonus, I also include the patch that changes > nfs_parse_server_address() to take a name length. This allows the passed-in > address string to have no '\0'-termination, which will help us support IPv6 > for NFSv4 referrals. > > Please consider these for 2.6.27. > > --- > > Chuck Lever (4): > NFS: handle interface identifiers in incoming IPv6 addresses > NFS: Add string length argument to nfs_parse_server_address > NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation > NFS: Use common device name parsing logic for NFSv4 and NFSv2/v3 > > > fs/nfs/super.c | 336 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 1 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) > All 4 patches applied to the 'devel' branch. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
