glad to see this approaching packageable state.
i'm not a DD, and so can't support you, but i support your efforts. [i also lurk on the nfs lists - we're thinking about implementing kerberized nfs for a smallish number of machines here (indiana university) so as to lock things down a little bit better. if there are debian packages, that gets a LOT easier.]
--elijah
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:28:58 -0400 From: J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: searching sponsor for nfsv4-related packages Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:28:54 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Saturday, 23 Oct 2004, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:On Friday, 22 Oct 2004, you wrote:I'm one of the developers on the Linux NFSv4 project, and am starting to think about getting some of our userland support into Debian. See, for example, libnfsidmap, available from
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/
Anyone interested?
Asking the current maintainer of NFSv3-Software might be a good starting point. According to packages.debian.org Chip Salzenberg is responsible for nfs-common. I CCed him in this eMail.
Yep, it'd be great to work with him. I've been trying to reach him for the last month or so and not having any luck; does anyone else know some other way of contacting him besides email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyway, my suspicion is that he's busy, and that therefore it wouldn't hurt to have someone else to help look over my packaging, if I can interest anyone in it.
Perhaps I should give a brief advertisement for our work: NFSv4 adds some highly desirable new features to NFS, including krb5-based security, ACLs, and delegations (which allow clients to cache more aggressively and in some cases to do opens, closes, and locks without any communication with the server).
The security pieces in particular require some userland support. One such piece is a userland library to map between local uids and the names that identify users on the wire--NFSv4 uses names of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED], unlike earlier versions which put uids on the wire. A current libnfsidmap tarball is available from
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/libnfsidmap/nfsidmap-0.5.tar.gz
The tarball is already set up to build a debian package. (This is in fact how I do my own testing, since all my test machines are running Debian unstable.)
I think this is stuff a lot of people will be interested in trying out, and Debian is already most of the way there--for example, recent 2.6 kernel image debs already have v4 support configured in. The remaining packaging needed won't be a lot of work, and I'll be excited to work on it with whoever is interested!
--Bruce Fields
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