On Feb 8, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Kyle McDonald wrote:

> Is there a good book to catch up on the changes to NFS in v3 and v4
> (mostly v4)? I'm looking to catchup on the admin security stuff  
> mainly,
> not lowlevel protocol details.
>
> The last time I was heavily into admining this stuff, I got vary
> familiar with (through NIS+) SecureRPC keys, keylogin, etc. for
> SecureNFS. And while I've picked up on some of the performance related
> changes with v3, I have totally missed learning aobut the new security
> features Liek how Kerberos fits in?). And I've got no clue what  
> changes
> NFS v4 and v4.1 include.
>
> I read Hal Stern's (I think he was co-author, but the other name  
> escapes
> me) O'Reilly NFS book back then and found it useful. O'Reilly  
> replied to
> my questions that there was no update planned to cover NFS v4.
>
> Can anyone suggest anything similiar and more up to date?

There is nothing that I am aware of at this point.  Neither the
O'Reilly book you mention or Brent Callaghan's book have been
updated to contain NFSv4 material.

I am curious if you are interested in the protocol details or
information more related to management and integration into existing
environments or the issues related to the deployment of NFS/Kerberos?

Spencer



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