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1 NFSv4.1 Server Implementation
2
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"
6 correspondingly.
7
8 Currently, server support for minorversion 1 is enabled by default.
9 It can be disabled 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.  You can use rpc.nfsd
12 for this; see rpc.nfsd(8).
13
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.)
18
19 The NFSv4 minorversion 1 (NFSv4.1) implementation in nfsd is based
20 on RFC 5661.
21
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.
26
27 The table below, taken from the NFSv4.1 document, lists
28 the operations that are mandatory to implement (REQ), optional
29 (OPT), and NFSv4.0 operations that are required not to implement (MNI)
30 in minor version 1.  The first column indicates the operations that
31 are not supported yet by the linux server implementation.
32
33 The OPTIONAL features identified and their abbreviations are as follows:
34         pNFS    Parallel NFS
35         FDELG   File Delegations
36         DDELG   Directory Delegations
37
38 The following abbreviations indicate the linux server implementation status.
39         I       Implemented NFSv4.1 operations.
40         NS      Not Supported.
41         NS*     Unimplemented optional feature.
42
43 Operations
44
45    +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+
46    | Operation            | REQ, REC,  | Feature      | Definition     |
47    |                      | OPT, or    | (REQ, REC,   |                |
48    |                      | MNI        | or OPT)      |                |
49    +----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+
50    | ACCESS               | REQ        |              | Section 18.1   |
51 I  | BACKCHANNEL_CTL      | REQ        |              | Section 18.33  |
52 I  | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ        |              | Section 18.34  |
53    | CLOSE                | REQ        |              | Section 18.2   |
54    | COMMIT               | REQ        |              | Section 18.3   |
55    | CREATE               | REQ        |              | Section 18.4   |
56 I  | CREATE_SESSION       | REQ        |              | Section 18.36  |
57 NS*| DELEGPURGE           | OPT        | FDELG (REQ)  | Section 18.5   |
58    | DELEGRETURN          | OPT        | FDELG,       | Section 18.6   |
59    |                      |            | DDELG, pNFS  |                |
60    |                      |            | (REQ)        |                |
61 I  | DESTROY_CLIENTID     | REQ        |              | Section 18.50  |
62 I  | DESTROY_SESSION      | REQ        |              | Section 18.37  |
63 I  | EXCHANGE_ID          | REQ        |              | Section 18.35  |
64 I  | FREE_STATEID         | REQ        |              | Section 18.38  |
65    | GETATTR              | REQ        |              | Section 18.7   |
66 I  | GETDEVICEINFO        | OPT        | pNFS (REQ)   | Section 18.40  |
67 NS*| GETDEVICELIST        | OPT        | pNFS (OPT)   | Section 18.41  |
68    | GETFH                | REQ        |              | Section 18.8   |
69 NS*| GET_DIR_DELEGATION   | OPT        | DDELG (REQ)  | Section 18.39  |
70 I  | LAYOUTCOMMIT         | OPT        | pNFS (REQ)   | Section 18.42  |
71 I  | LAYOUTGET            | OPT        | pNFS (REQ)   | Section 18.43  |
72 I  | LAYOUTRETURN         | OPT        | pNFS (REQ)   | Section 18.44  |
73    | LINK                 | OPT        |              | Section 18.9   |
74    | LOCK                 | REQ        |              | Section 18.10  |
75    | LOCKT                | REQ        |              | Section 18.11  |
76    | LOCKU                | REQ        |              | Section 18.12  |
77    | LOOKUP               | REQ        |              | Section 18.13  |
78    | LOOKUPP              | REQ        |              | Section 18.14  |
79    | NVERIFY              | REQ        |              | Section 18.15  |
80    | OPEN                 | REQ        |              | Section 18.16  |
81 NS*| OPENATTR             | OPT        |              | Section 18.17  |
82    | OPEN_CONFIRM         | MNI        |              | N/A            |
83    | OPEN_DOWNGRADE       | REQ        |              | Section 18.18  |
84    | PUTFH                | REQ        |              | Section 18.19  |
85    | PUTPUBFH             | REQ        |              | Section 18.20  |
86    | PUTROOTFH            | REQ        |              | Section 18.21  |
87    | READ                 | REQ        |              | Section 18.22  |
88    | READDIR              | REQ        |              | Section 18.23  |
89    | READLINK             | OPT        |              | Section 18.24  |
90    | RECLAIM_COMPLETE     | REQ        |              | Section 18.51  |
91    | RELEASE_LOCKOWNER    | MNI        |              | N/A            |
92    | REMOVE               | REQ        |              | Section 18.25  |
93    | RENAME               | REQ        |              | Section 18.26  |
94    | RENEW                | MNI        |              | N/A            |
95    | RESTOREFH            | REQ        |              | Section 18.27  |
96    | SAVEFH               | REQ        |              | Section 18.28  |
97    | SECINFO              | REQ        |              | Section 18.29  |
98 I  | SECINFO_NO_NAME      | REC        | pNFS files   | Section 18.45, |
99    |                      |            | layout (REQ) | Section 13.12  |
100 I  | SEQUENCE             | REQ        |              | Section 18.46  |
101    | SETATTR              | REQ        |              | Section 18.30  |
102    | SETCLIENTID          | MNI        |              | N/A            |
103    | SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM  | MNI        |              | N/A            |
104 NS | SET_SSV              | REQ        |              | Section 18.47  |
105 I  | TEST_STATEID         | REQ        |              | Section 18.48  |
106    | VERIFY               | REQ        |              | Section 18.31  |
107 NS*| WANT_DELEGATION      | OPT        | FDELG (OPT)  | Section 18.49  |
108    | WRITE                | REQ        |              | Section 18.32  |
109
110 Callback Operations
111
112    +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
113    | Operation               | REQ, REC, | Feature     | Definition    |
114    |                         | OPT, or   | (REQ, REC,  |               |
115    |                         | MNI       | or OPT)     |               |
116    +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
117    | CB_GETATTR              | OPT       | FDELG (REQ) | Section 20.1  |
118 I  | CB_LAYOUTRECALL         | OPT       | pNFS (REQ)  | Section 20.3  |
119 NS*| CB_NOTIFY               | OPT       | DDELG (REQ) | Section 20.4  |
120 NS*| CB_NOTIFY_DEVICEID      | OPT       | pNFS (OPT)  | Section 20.12 |
121 NS*| CB_NOTIFY_LOCK          | OPT       |             | Section 20.11 |
122 NS*| CB_PUSH_DELEG           | OPT       | FDELG (OPT) | Section 20.5  |
123    | CB_RECALL               | OPT       | FDELG,      | Section 20.2  |
124    |                         |           | DDELG, pNFS |               |
125    |                         |           | (REQ)       |               |
126 NS*| CB_RECALL_ANY           | OPT       | FDELG,      | Section 20.6  |
127    |                         |           | DDELG, pNFS |               |
128    |                         |           | (REQ)       |               |
129 NS | CB_RECALL_SLOT          | REQ       |             | Section 20.8  |
130 NS*| CB_RECALLABLE_OBJ_AVAIL | OPT       | DDELG, pNFS | Section 20.7  |
131    |                         |           | (REQ)       |               |
132 I  | CB_SEQUENCE             | OPT       | FDELG,      | Section 20.9  |
133    |                         |           | DDELG, pNFS |               |
134    |                         |           | (REQ)       |               |
135 NS*| CB_WANTS_CANCELLED      | OPT       | FDELG,      | Section 20.10 |
136    |                         |           | DDELG, pNFS |               |
137    |                         |           | (REQ)       |               |
138    +-------------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------+
139
140 Implementation notes:
141
142 SSV:
143 * The spec claims this is mandatory, but we don't actually know of any
144   implementations, so we're ignoring it for now.  The server returns
145   NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on EXCHANGE_ID, which should be future-proof.
146
147 GSS on the backchannel:
148 * Again, theoretically required but not widely implemented (in
149   particular, the current Linux client doesn't request it).  We return
150   NFS4ERR_ENCR_ALG_UNSUPP on CREATE_SESSION.
151
152 DELEGPURGE:
153 * mandatory only for servers that support CLAIM_DELEGATE_PREV and/or
154   CLAIM_DELEG_PREV_FH (which allows clients to keep delegations that
155   persist across client reboots).  Thus we need not implement this for
156   now.
157
158 EXCHANGE_ID:
159 * implementation ids are ignored
160
161 CREATE_SESSION:
162 * backchannel attributes are ignored
163
164 SEQUENCE:
165 * no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional)
166
167 Nonstandard compound limitations:
168 * No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a
169   ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may
170   fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel
171   negotiation.
172
173 See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues.