Hi Chuck, Thanks much for the detailed update. On 11/02/2009 10:10 PM, Chuck Lever wrote: > On Nov 2, 2009, at 3:20 AM, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: >> Hi Chuck et al, >> >> Thanks for all the excellent work on IPv6 support. There have been >> considerable amount of development that has been happening recently. >> However, it's not very clear what are the missing pieces or open >> problems (if any). > > There's a working document on the linux-nfs.org wiki that has a full > list, but I can't seem to get to linux-nfs.org right now. Is this what you mentioned? http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_IPv6_support http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFSv4_Introduction#IPv6_support_for_the_client > > The long answer depends on your definition of "full". :-) > > Does that include complete support for link-local IPv6 addresses? Does > that include full support for netids in the kernel? Does that include > complete multi-homed host support in lockd and statd? Does that include > full support for internationalized domain names? Does that include IPv6 > netgroup support? Does it include IPv6 support in TCP wrappers? Does > it include support for systems that have no IPv4 addresses (not even > loopback)? > > There are a bunch of details that still need to be worked through. I've > only been able to guess at what features are required, and which can be > implemented at a later time. What I would dearly love to have is a list > of specific features that folks feel is a baseline (based on actual > data, of course). I'd try and see if I could get the list of specific features. > > Plus, most distributions don't have fluent user space infrastructure for > IPv6 yet. NetworkManager is one area that may need work. The Network > Administration tool in Fedora is still IPv4-centric, iirc. We don't > have firewall admin tools that handle IPv6 rules. Unlike IPv4, admins > can (and often do) use IPv6-aware kernels without ipv6.ko, so all of our > tools and support have to be careful about using IPv6 when the O/S may > not support it. This is different than IPv4, which is nearly always > available. > Thanks, -- Suresh Jayaraman -- 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
