On Oct 29, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Chuck Lever <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm introducing some important new features for 0.10 with this > series of patches. > > 1. A "fedfs-domainroot" tool that can create and remove FedFS > domain root exports on a Linux NFS server > > 2. An "nsdb-jumpstart" tool that whips up an NSDB from a blank > OpenLDAP install. It can also enable TLS and create an x.509 > certificate that can be distributed to NSDB clients > > 3. The pre-requisites for a new mechanism for NSDB clients to > discover NCEs on NSDBs. "nsdb-jumpstart" already adds this > new mechansim, but the old mechanism (fedfsNceDN) still works > too (since its the current standard). > > 4. These tools are written in Python. The next generation of FedFS > administrative tools will be written in Python, so with this > series I am introducing a foundation for Python in fedfs-utils > by introducing the PyFedfs site package. > > And note that this is all based on Python 2.7. > > Within the next two years, most Linux distributions will be moving > to Python 3 by default, but they do not seem poised to remove Python > 2.7 soon. In particular, I expect the next release of RHEL (and > thus derivatives of RHEL) to continue to use Python 2.7 as the > default version. > > Adding Python 3 support is unquestionably a future feature for > fedfs-utils, but for the time being I went with what I was familiar > with. > > Since this is a large and complex set of patches, and because I will > be traveling next week, the comment period for these patches ends > Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at midnight ET. For the curious, I recommend starting by reading the new man pages for both tools to familiarize yourself with their functionality and command line interfaces, rather than by immediately diving into the code. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com _______________________________________________ fedfs-utils-devel mailing list [email protected] https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/fedfs-utils-devel
