On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 12:10 PM Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > ---- > > Below (and also available at https://nrubsig.kpaste.net/b37) is a > patch which adds support for nfs://-URLs in mount.nfs4, as alternative > to the traditional hostname:/path+-o port=<tcp-port> notation. > > * Main advantages are: > - Single-line notation with the familiar URL syntax, which includes > hostname, path *AND* TCP port number (last one is a common generator > of *PAIN* with ISPs) in ONE string > - Support for non-ASCII mount points, e.g. paths with CJKV (Chinese, > Japanese, ...) characters, which is typically a big problem if you try > to transfer such mount point information across email/chat/clipboard > etc., which tends to mangle such characters to death (e.g. > transliteration, adding of ZWSP or just '?'). Why wasn't this fixed earlier? > - URL parameters are supported, providing support for future extensions > > * Notes: > - Similar support for nfs://-URLs exists in other NFSv4.* > implementations, including Illumos, Windows ms-nfs41-client, > sahlberg/libnfs, ... OpenText NFS Solo also uses nfs URL > - This is NOT about WebNFS, this is only to use an URL representation > to make the life of admins a LOT easier > - Only absolute paths are supported > - This feature will not be provided for NFSv3 > > ---- snip ---- > From e7b5a3ac981727e4585288bd66d1a9b2dea045dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 10:58:48 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] mount.nfs4: Add support for nfs://-URLs > > Add support for RFC 2224-style nfs://-URLs as alternative to the > traditional hostname:/path+-o port=<tcp-port> notation, > providing standardised, extensible, single-string, crossplatform, > portable, Character-Encoding independent (e.g. mount point with > Japanese, Chinese, French etc. characters) and ASCII-compatible > descriptions of NFSv4 server resources (exports). > > Reviewed-by: Martin Wege <martin.l.wege@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@xxxxxxxxx> > --- Sweet. LGTM -- Internationalization&localization dev / 大阪大学 Takeshi Nishimura <takeshi.nishimura.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
