On 08/17/2009 12:37 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:19:27PM -0400, William A. (Andy) Adamson wrote: >> I think NFSv4.0 should be moved from EXPERIMENTAL before NFSv4.1 gets >> moved from DEVELOPER -> EXPERIMENTAL! >> >> What is left to do in NFSv4.0 to allow this to happen? > > Todo's I know of that should probably be fixed first: > > - on the client side (we probably want to move client and server > out of experimental at roughly the same time, if possible?) > there's the mount negotiation to finish. Steve intends his > mount configuration stuff to be a first step. Which was committed...
> - server-side exports coordinated with v2/v3: I need to take a > day or two to think about Steve's patches. Will do that soon! This has been in Fedora's rawhide kernel since early July... with now issues.. yet! ;-) > - server-side reboot recovery code: the other kernel people > really hate the current v4 recovery code, and it has indeed > been a generator of weird bugs. I tried to pick this up early > this week and write down a basic design, then got distracted. > Would like to get this fixed sooner rather than later just > because it will likely be a backwards-incompatible change, > hence easier to do while there are fewer users. > - proper delegation enforcement: currently e.g. if you edit a > delegated file with a text editor, delegation-holding clients > don't get an update (because the server is not correctly > breaking leases on rename/unlink). I have a patch series that > needs a few more bug fixes and some review. Are these in a bug report somewhere? And it sound like that latter is a bit more important than the former.. > > Some other todo's I can think of that I'm not might also block > EXPERIMENTAL removal (but I'm not as sure): > > - Turn on 4.0 reply cache. Theoretical problem, not sure if > we've seen it in practice. Won't enabling nfs41 help with this? > - Make sure deferrals don't replay non-idempotent operations. > (Neil is close to fixing this.) Theoretical problem, not sure > if we've seen it in practice. So probably not a show stopper... steved. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
