Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Add server-side support for junctions to nfs-utils

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> On Jan 9, 2018, at 2:21 PM, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Thanks for doing this!  I may not get the chance to do a real review,
> but I'm in favor of the basic idea.

How do you feel about building support for junctions into mountd,
and getting rid of the libnfsjunct DLL ?


> --b.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:49:50PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> THIS IS AN UNTESTED RFC SERIES. I'm posting this for review only.
>> 
>> A while back I announced the deprecation of fedfs-utils. There were
>> a handful of components in fedfs-utils that we decided to keep. One
>> of those keepers was the "nfsref" command. (The other was autofs
>> support for /nfs4, which I hope Ian Kent is making progress on ;-)
>> 
>> This is an RFC patch series to introduce "nfsref" to nfs-utils,
>> minus the overhead of the LDAP / FedFS machinery. It also adds a
>> version of libnfsjunct which mountd can dynamically load to handle
>> non-FedFS junctions, replacing the same part from fedfs-utils.
>> 
>> I didn't apply a lot of brain cells to this port, so it's perhaps a
>> little larger than it needs to be. Still, it achieves a completely
>> LDAP-free implementation. I'm interested in comments about the
>> approach before I do more testing and refinement.
>> 
>>  ./configure --enable-junction --enable-caps
>> 
>> is needed before building.
>> 
>> Perhaps one thing that can be done is simply getting rid of the DLL
>> and building junction support into mountd. I'm not sure if a
>> transition period is necessary where the DLL is retained for a bit
>> until fedfs-utils is entirely gone. Does anything but mountd use
>> libnfsjunct ?
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> Chuck Lever (3):
>>      Add LDAP-free version of libjunction to nfs-utils
>>      Add LDAP-free version of libnfsjunct to nfs-utils
>>      Add 'nfsref' command
>> 
>> 
>> aclocal/libxml2.m4                   |   15 
>> configure.ac                         |   12 
>> support/Makefile.am                  |    4 
>> support/include/Makefile.am          |    3 
>> support/include/fedfs_admin.h        |  342 +++++++
>> support/include/junction.h           |  124 +++
>> support/include/nfs-plugin.h         |  101 ++
>> support/junction/Makefile.am         |   40 +
>> support/junction/display.c           |  159 +++
>> support/junction/export-cache.c      |  118 +++
>> support/junction/junction-internal.h |  121 +++
>> support/junction/junction.c          |  494 +++++++++++
>> support/junction/locations.c         |  131 +++
>> support/junction/nfs-plugin.c        |  350 ++++++++
>> support/junction/nfs.c               | 1564 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> support/junction/path.c              |  345 ++++++++
>> support/junction/xml.c               |  401 +++++++++
>> utils/Makefile.am                    |    4 
>> utils/nfsref/Makefile.am             |   39 +
>> utils/nfsref/add.c                   |  271 ++++++
>> utils/nfsref/lookup.c                |  211 +++++
>> utils/nfsref/nfsref.c                |  188 ++++
>> utils/nfsref/nfsref.h                |   47 +
>> utils/nfsref/nfsref.man              |  180 ++++
>> utils/nfsref/remove.c                |  145 +++
>> 25 files changed, 5409 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 aclocal/libxml2.m4
>> create mode 100644 support/include/fedfs_admin.h
>> create mode 100644 support/include/junction.h
>> create mode 100644 support/include/nfs-plugin.h
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/Makefile.am
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/display.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/export-cache.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/junction-internal.h
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/junction.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/locations.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/nfs-plugin.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/nfs.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/path.c
>> create mode 100644 support/junction/xml.c
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/Makefile.am
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/add.c
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/lookup.c
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/nfsref.c
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/nfsref.h
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/nfsref.man
>> create mode 100644 utils/nfsref/remove.c
>> 
>> --
>> Chuck Lever
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