[ale] NFS via TCP

Jeff Layton jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com
Thu Mar 27 12:38:31 EST 2003


Chris Ricker wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> >    NFSv4 support is in the 2.5.x series kernel but I don't think there will
> > ever be a 2.4 back-port. I haven't tried NFSv4 yet since I'm reluctant to
> > try the unstable kernel series, but NFSv4 has some nifty features I
> > want to try.
>
> It was actually first developed on 2.4, though that code's no longer
> maintained. Instead, you can now get a 2.4 client backport of the 2.5 code
> from CITI, though you'll need 2.5 (or use unmaintained patches for 2.4) for
> the server (for now; the server should shortly be backported as well)
>
> <http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/>
>
> I've been interested in getting it operating with Solaris servers doing
> kerberized NFS. I got it kinda working at one point, but haven't had time to
> poke it more since then....

Thanks, I didn't know that. I thought CITI gave up on the
NFSv4 code for 2.4.

Jeff


>
>
> later,
> chris
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