| ============================= | |
| NFSv4.1 Server Implementation | |
| ============================= | |
| Server support for minorversion 1 can be controlled using the | |
| /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. The string output returned | |
| by reading this file will contain either "+4.1" or "-4.1" | |
| correspondingly. | |
| Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is enabled by default. | |
| It can be disabled at run time by writing the string "-4.1" to | |
| the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this | |
| control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. You can use rpc.nfsd | |
| for this; see rpc.nfsd(8). | |
| (Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and | |
| "-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old | |
| kernels must turn 4.1 on or off *before* turning support for version 4 | |
| on or off; rpc.nfsd does this correctly.) | |
| The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based | |
| on RFC 5661. | |
| From the many new features in NFSv4.1 the current implementation | |
| focuses on the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions, providing | |
| "exactly once" semantics and better control and throttling of the | |
| resources allocated for each client. | |
| The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists | |
| the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional | |
| (OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI) | |
| in minor version 1. The first column indicates the operations that | |
| are not supported yet by the linux server implementation. | |
| The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows: | |
| - **pNFS** Parallel NFS | |
| - **FDELG** File Delegations | |
| - **DDELG** Directory Delegations | |
| The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status. | |
| - **I** Implemented NFSv4.1 operations. | |
| - **NS** Not Supported. | |
| - **NS\*** Unimplemented optional feature. | |
| Operations | |
| ========== | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | Implementation status | Operation | REQ,REC, OPT or NMI | Feature (REQ, REC or OPT) | Definition | | |
| +=======================+======================+=====================+===========================+================+ | |
| | | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | CREATE_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.36 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | NS* | DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | DELEGRETURN | OPT | FDELG, | Section 18.6 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | | | DDELG, pNFS | | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | | | (REQ) | | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | NS* | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | GETFH | REQ | | Section 18.8 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | NS* | GET_DIR_DELEGATION | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 18.39 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | LINK | OPT | | Section 18.9 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | LOCK | REQ | | Section 18.10 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | LOCKT | REQ | | Section 18.11 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | LOCKU | REQ | | Section 18.12 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | LOOKUP | REQ | | Section 18.13 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | LOOKUPP | REQ | | Section 18.14 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | NVERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.15 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | OPEN | REQ | | Section 18.16 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | NS* | OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | OPEN_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | OPEN_DOWNGRADE | REQ | | Section 18.18 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | PUTFH | REQ | | Section 18.19 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | PUTPUBFH | REQ | | Section 18.20 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | PUTROOTFH | REQ | | Section 18.21 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | READ | REQ | | Section 18.22 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | READDIR | REQ | | Section 18.23 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | READLINK | OPT | | Section 18.24 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER | MNI | | N/A | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | REMOVE | REQ | | Section 18.25 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | RENAME | REQ | | Section 18.26 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | RENEW | MNI | | N/A | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | I | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | NS* | WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| | | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 | | |
| +-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+----------------+ | |
| Callback Operations | |
| =================== | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | Implementation status | Operation | REQ,REC, OPT or NMI | Feature (REQ, REC or OPT) | Definition | | |
| +=======================+=========================+=====================+===========================+===============+ | |
| | | CB_GETATTR | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | I | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_NOTIFY | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_NOTIFY_LOCK | OPT | | Section 20.11 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_PUSH_DELEG | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | CB_RECALL | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.2 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | DDELG, pNFS | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | (REQ) | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_RECALL_ANY | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.6 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | DDELG, pNFS | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | (REQ) | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS | CB_RECALL_SLOT | REQ | | Section 20.8 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_RECALLABLE_OBJ_AVAIL | OPT | DDELG, pNFS | Section 20.7 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | (REQ) | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | I | CB_SEQUENCE | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.9 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | DDELG, pNFS | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | (REQ) | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | NS* | CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | DDELG, pNFS | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| | | | | (REQ) | | | |
| +-----------------------+-------------------------+---------------------+---------------------------+---------------+ | |
| Implementation notes: | |
| ===================== | |
| SSV: | |
| The spec claims this is mandatory, but we don't actually know of any | |
| implementations, so we're ignoring it for now. The server returns | |
| NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on EXCHANGE_ID, which should be future-proof. | |
| GSS on the backchannel: | |
| Again, theoretically required but not widely implemented (in | |
| particular, the current Linux client doesn't request it). We return | |
| NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on CREATE_SESSION. | |
| DELEGPURGE: | |
| mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or | |
| CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that | |
| persist across client reboots). Thus we need not implement this for | |
| now. | |
| EXCHANGE_ID: | |
| implementation ids are ignored | |
| CREATE_SESSION: | |
| backchannel attributes are ignored | |
| SEQUENCE: | |
| no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional) | |
| Nonstandard compound limitations: | |
| No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a | |
| ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may | |
| fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel | |
| negotiation. | |
| See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues. |