1 NFSv4.1 Server Implementation
3 Server support for minorversion 1 can be controlled using the
4 /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. The string output returned
5 by reading this file will contain either "+4.1" or "-4.1"
8 Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is disabled by default.
9 It can be enabled at run time by writing the string "+4.1" to
10 the /proc/fs/nfsd/versions control file. Note that to write this
11 control file, the nfsd service must be taken down. Use your user-mode
12 nfs-utils to set this up; see rpc.nfsd(8)
14 (Warning: older servers will interpret "+4.1" and "-4.1" as "+4" and
15 "-4", respectively. Therefore, code meant to work on both new and old
16 kernels must turn 4.1 on or off *before* turning support for version 4
17 on or off; rpc.nfsd does this correctly.)
19 The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based
22 From the many new features in NFSv4.1 the current implementation
23 focuses on the mandatory-to-implement NFSv4.1 Sessions, providing
24 "exactly once" semantics and better control and throttling of the
25 resources allocated for each client.
27 Other NFSv4.1 features, Parallel NFS operations in particular,
28 are still under development out of tree.
29 See http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/PNFS_prototype_design
32 The current implementation is intended for developers only: while it
33 does support ordinary file operations on clients we have tested against
34 (including the linux client), it is incomplete in ways which may limit
35 features unexpectedly, cause known bugs in rare cases, or cause
36 interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues:
38 - gss support is questionable: currently mounts with kerberos
39 from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really
40 conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos
41 on the backchannel correctly).
42 - no trunking support: no clients currently take advantage of
43 trunking, but this is a mandatory feature, and its use is
44 recommended to clients in a number of places. (E.g. to ensure
45 timely renewal in case an existing connection's retry timeouts
46 have gotten too long; see section 8.3 of the RFC.)
47 Therefore, lack of this feature may cause future clients to
49 - Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss
50 support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that
51 callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be
52 available and clients confused by the incomplete
53 implementation may fail.
54 - Server reboot recovery is unsupported; if the server reboots,
56 - We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared
57 client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering
58 with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for
59 servers to support this, though no clients use it yet.
60 - Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as
61 DESTROY_CLIENTID, FREE_STATEID, SECINFO_NO_NAME, and
62 TEST_STATEID, are not currently used by clients, but will be
63 (and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and
64 clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the
65 case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause
66 interoperability failures.
68 In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4
71 - Incomplete delegation enforcement: if a file is renamed or
72 unlinked, a client holding a delegation may continue to
73 indefinitely allow opens of the file under the old name.
75 The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists
76 the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional
77 (OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI)
78 in minor version 1. The first column indicates the operations that
79 are not supported yet by the linux server implementation.
81 The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows:
83 FDELG File Delegations
84 DDELG Directory Delegations
86 The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status.
87 I Implemented NFSv4.1 operations.
89 NS* unimplemented optional feature.
90 P pNFS features implemented out of tree.
91 PNS pNFS features that are not supported yet (out of tree).
95 +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+
96 | Operation | REQ, REC, | Feature | Definition |
97 | | OPT, or | (REQ, REC, | |
99 +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+
100 | ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 |
101 NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 |
102 NS | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 |
103 | CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 |
104 | COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 |
105 | CREATE | REQ | | Section 18.4 |
106 I | CREATE_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.36 |
107 NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 |
108 | DELEGRETURN | OPT | FDELG, | Section 18.6 |
109 | | | DDELG, pNFS | |
111 NS | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 |
112 I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 |
113 I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 |
114 NS | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 |
115 | GETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.7 |
116 P | GETDEVICEINFO | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.40 |
117 P | GETDEVICELIST | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 18.41 |
118 | GETFH | REQ | | Section 18.8 |
119 NS*| GET_DIR_DELEGATION | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 18.39 |
120 P | LAYOUTCOMMIT | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.42 |
121 P | LAYOUTGET | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.43 |
122 P | LAYOUTRETURN | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 18.44 |
123 | LINK | OPT | | Section 18.9 |
124 | LOCK | REQ | | Section 18.10 |
125 | LOCKT | REQ | | Section 18.11 |
126 | LOCKU | REQ | | Section 18.12 |
127 | LOOKUP | REQ | | Section 18.13 |
128 | LOOKUPP | REQ | | Section 18.14 |
129 | NVERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.15 |
130 | OPEN | REQ | | Section 18.16 |
131 NS*| OPENATTR | OPT | | Section 18.17 |
132 | OPEN_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A |
133 | OPEN_DOWNGRADE | REQ | | Section 18.18 |
134 | PUTFH | REQ | | Section 18.19 |
135 | PUTPUBFH | REQ | | Section 18.20 |
136 | PUTROOTFH | REQ | | Section 18.21 |
137 | READ | REQ | | Section 18.22 |
138 | READDIR | REQ | | Section 18.23 |
139 | READLINK | OPT | | Section 18.24 |
140 | RECLAIM_COMPLETE | REQ | | Section 18.51 |
141 | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER | MNI | | N/A |
142 | REMOVE | REQ | | Section 18.25 |
143 | RENAME | REQ | | Section 18.26 |
144 | RENEW | MNI | | N/A |
145 | RESTOREFH | REQ | | Section 18.27 |
146 | SAVEFH | REQ | | Section 18.28 |
147 | SECINFO | REQ | | Section 18.29 |
148 NS | SECINFO_NO_NAME | REC | pNFS files | Section 18.45, |
149 | | | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12 |
150 I | SEQUENCE | REQ | | Section 18.46 |
151 | SETATTR | REQ | | Section 18.30 |
152 | SETCLIENTID | MNI | | N/A |
153 | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM | MNI | | N/A |
154 NS | SET_SSV | REQ | | Section 18.47 |
155 NS | TEST_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.48 |
156 | VERIFY | REQ | | Section 18.31 |
157 NS*| WANT_DELEGATION | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 18.49 |
158 | WRITE | REQ | | Section 18.32 |
162 +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
163 | Operation | REQ, REC, | Feature | Definition |
164 | | OPT, or | (REQ, REC, | |
165 | | MNI | or OPT) | |
166 +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
167 | CB_GETATTR | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1 |
168 P | CB_LAYOUTRECALL | OPT | pNFS (REQ) | Section 20.3 |
169 NS*| CB_NOTIFY | OPT | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4 |
170 P | CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID | OPT | pNFS (OPT) | Section 20.12 |
171 NS*| CB_NOTIFY_LOCK | OPT | | Section 20.11 |
172 NS*| CB_PUSH_DELEG | OPT | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5 |
173 | CB_RECALL | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.2 |
174 | | | DDELG, pNFS | |
176 NS*| CB_RECALL_ANY | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.6 |
177 | | | DDELG, pNFS | |
179 NS | CB_RECALL_SLOT | REQ | | Section 20.8 |
180 NS*| CB_RECALLABLE_OBJ_AVAIL | OPT | DDELG, pNFS | Section 20.7 |
182 I | CB_SEQUENCE | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.9 |
183 | | | DDELG, pNFS | |
185 NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED | OPT | FDELG, | Section 20.10 |
186 | | | DDELG, pNFS | |
188 +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
190 Implementation notes:
193 * mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or
194 CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that
195 persist across client reboots). Thus we need not implement this for
199 * only SP4_NONE state protection supported
200 * implementation ids are ignored
203 * backchannel attributes are ignored
204 * backchannel security parameters are ignored
207 * no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional)
209 nfsv4.1 COMPOUND rules:
210 The following cases aren't supported yet:
211 * Enforcing of NFS4ERR_NOT_ONLY_OP for: BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION, CREATE_SESSION,
212 DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID.
213 * DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request.
215 Nonstandard compound limitations:
216 * No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a
217 ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may
218 fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel
220 * No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per