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author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2009-10-27 14:41:35 -0400 |
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committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2009-10-27 19:34:04 -0400 |
commit | dc7a08166f3a5f23e79e839a8a88849bd3397c32 (patch) | |
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nfs: new subdir Documentation/filesystems/nfs
We're adding enough nfs documentation that it may as well have its own
subdirectory.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f50f26ce6cd..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,98 +0,0 @@ - -The NFS client -============== - -The NFS version 2 protocol was first documented in RFC1094 (March 1989). -Since then two more major releases of NFS have been published, with NFSv3 -being documented in RFC1813 (June 1995), and NFSv4 in RFC3530 (April -2003). - -The Linux NFS client currently supports all the above published versions, -and work is in progress on adding support for minor version 1 of the NFSv4 -protocol. - -The purpose of this document is to provide information on some of the -upcall interfaces that are used in order to provide the NFS client with -some of the information that it requires in order to fully comply with -the NFS spec. - -The DNS resolver -================ - -NFSv4 allows for one server to refer the NFS client to data that has been -migrated onto another server by means of the special "fs_locations" -attribute. See - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3530#section-6 -and - http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-referrals-00 - -The fs_locations information can take the form of either an ip address and -a path, or a DNS hostname and a path. The latter requires the NFS client to -do a DNS lookup in order to mount the new volume, and hence the need for an -upcall to allow userland to provide this service. - -Assuming that the user has the 'rpc_pipefs' filesystem mounted in the usual -/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, the upcall consists of the following steps: - - (1) The process checks the dns_resolve cache to see if it contains a - valid entry. If so, it returns that entry and exits. - - (2) If no valid entry exists, the helper script '/sbin/nfs_cache_getent' - (may be changed using the 'nfs.cache_getent' kernel boot parameter) - is run, with two arguments: - - the cache name, "dns_resolve" - - the hostname to resolve - - (3) After looking up the corresponding ip address, the helper script - writes the result into the rpc_pipefs pseudo-file - '/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/cache/dns_resolve/channel' - in the following (text) format: - - "<ip address> <hostname> <ttl>\n" - - Where <ip address> is in the usual IPv4 (123.456.78.90) or IPv6 - (ffee:ddcc:bbaa:9988:7766:5544:3322:1100, ffee::1100, ...) format. - <hostname> is identical to the second argument of the helper - script, and <ttl> is the 'time to live' of this cache entry (in - units of seconds). - - Note: If <ip address> is invalid, say the string "0", then a negative - entry is created, which will cause the kernel to treat the hostname - as having no valid DNS translation. - - - - -A basic sample /sbin/nfs_cache_getent -===================================== - -#!/bin/bash -# -ttl=600 -# -cut=/usr/bin/cut -getent=/usr/bin/getent -rpc_pipefs=/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs -# -die() -{ - echo "Usage: $0 cache_name entry_name" - exit 1 -} - -[ $# -lt 2 ] && die -cachename="$1" -cache_path=${rpc_pipefs}/cache/${cachename}/channel - -case "${cachename}" in - dns_resolve) - name="$2" - result="$(${getent} hosts ${name} | ${cut} -f1 -d\ )" - [ -z "${result}" ] && result="0" - ;; - *) - die - ;; -esac -echo "${result} ${name} ${ttl}" >${cache_path} - |