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      1. NFSv4 Test Suite
      2. NFS sharemnt Test Suite

OpenSolaris Community: NFS

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Community Observers

• DTrace Provider for NFSv4
  
• NFS RDMA transport update and performance analysis
  
• NFS Server in non-Global Zones
  
• NFS version 4.1 pNFS
  
• NFSv4 namespace extensions
  
• Object Storage Device (OSD) support for Solaris
  
• Solaris iSCSI Target
  
• ZFS on disk encryption support
  

The Network File System (NFS) has existed in one version or another since 1985. The OpenSolaris implementation includes support for NFS versions 2, 3 and 4. NFS version 4 is the area where most of the development activity exists. There is ongoing work within the IETF in interpreting the current NFSv4 specification and defining extensions or minor versions for NFSv4.

The very nature of NFS, sharing of filesystems, has led to the development of an NFS community that consists of the various platform implementations. Once a year, that community comes together to do interoperability testing at Connectathon'™'.

See the XNFS docs here:

Visit the discussion forum

For Linux specific NFS Issues there is a mail list here

Events

15 Sep 2008

Bake-a-thon (BAT)

News

Article: The Management of NFS Performance With Solaris ZFS | Solaris Developer Network | 07/03/2007

Several scaling factors, most recently Solaris ZFS file systems, have exposed Network File System (NFS) performance issues. This article provides an overview of the algorithmic changes to solving these issues.

Blogs

Mike Eisler - ONTAP 7.3 NFS Compatibility Matrix posted to NOW

Sep 4, 8:23 AM

NetApp's philosophy with NFS interoperability is that we expect our NFS servers to conform with the RFCs, and thus NetApp claims interoperability with any NFS client that similarly conforms with the ...

tdh - Updated connectathon.org

Aug 26, 12:18 PM

I just revamped connectathon.org . I added a style sheet - which let me get rid of the all encompassing table to do layouts. I've got a left, content, and right style defined. I'm still using the ...

Mike Eisler - pNFS in the News Again

Aug 18, 10:00 AM

I need to set the record about a claim made in a recent headline: http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/08/15/netapp-expert-says-pnfs-not-necessarily-vmware-solution/ says: NetApp expert says pNFS ...

Mike Eisler - NFSv4.1 Specification Reviewed by Area Advisor

Aug 14, 10:23 AM

Lars Eggert, one of IETF's Transport Area Directors, and Area Advisor of the NFSv4 working group has completed his review of the NFSv4.1 spec. Lars had excellent comments, which we will (obviously ...

Mike Eisler - Blog Post Series: Since NFSv4 is Stateful It Must Be Less Robust, Right?

Aug 14, 8:49 AM

This post will serve as the list of pointers to my series on NFSv4 state and robustness: Part I compares NFSv3 and NFSv4 state recovery and explains why NFSv4 state recovery is superior. Part II ...