Thanks, Robert. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up.
Eric On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Robert Thurlow wrote: > I propose a new project that delivers the NFSv4 extensions for > Mirror Mounts, Referrals, and Replication & Migration. This > project should be endorsed by the NFS community. > > What's a mirror mount? It's a way to make the client automatically > mount filesystems from the same server as it discovers them. The > current Solaris NFS client code does not do this, which forces > admins to update their automounter maps when new filesystems are > created. ZFS admins would rather be free to create new filesystems > and have them discovered. Mirror mounts are described in the NFSv4 > RFC 3530, related to the server namespace. For more about how we > would like this to work, please see: > http://blogs.sun.com/tdh/entry/how_nfsv4_should_work_when > > What's a referral? It's a pointer a server can give to a client > that means, "I don't have the filesystem, but you can find it > here." The client will redirect its access to the referred > location transparently and continue. A global namespace can be > constructed with a mechanism to find an initial global root and > referrals. The current project is working on NFSv4.0 (RFC 3530) > referral support on the client, with work to follow on NFSv4.1 > referral extensions. > > What's replication & migration? RFC 3530 defines support for a > server to be able to say, "that filesystem is no longer here, > it's over there now" or "another copy of this filesystem lives > here." This links the idea of a referral to the actions needed > to resynchronize state of files the client was already using prior > to the migration event. Being able to move and replicate filesystems > freely is another part of a global namespace. > > Initial team: Evan Layton, Alok Aggarwal, Calum Mackay, Rob Thurlow. > > Rob T > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org >
