Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: NFS Server in Local Zones

2007-03-08 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Tom Haynes wrote: Last month I started a discussion about what should a NFS server in a zone look like? What were the goals? How did people want to use it to provide solutions for their customers? Etc. At this time, I want to propose a project to get a NFS

[osol-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Project Proposal: NFSv4 namespace extensions

2007-03-07 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Robert Thurlow wrote: I propose a new project that delivers the NFSv4 extensions for Mirror Mounts, Referrals, and Replication Migration. This project should be endorsed by the NFS community. What's a mirror mount? It's a way to make the client automatically

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for In-Kernel Sharetab

2007-01-23 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Tue, Darren J Moffat wrote: Tom Haynes wrote: The proposal is to move the sharetab info out of //etc/dfs/sharetab/ and into memory. Users can still get to the data via a filesystem interface - think of the mnttab. Are you asking to start a project to cover this ? If so I think that

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: help with finding the source

2007-01-21 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Sun, Ashok Nair wrote: James, Thanks, Can you clarify a bit about how library call to librpcsvc.so.1 can resolve to a function defined in mount.c? I was expecting the function to be defined in librpcsvc.so.1. I dont have any prior experince in the build process. Technically, it

Re: [osol-discuss] Jumpstart Linux NFSv4 mount problem

2007-01-12 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Thu, juan valdez wrote: Howdy I'm new to this thread but not Solaris in general. I'm trying to get Solaris 10 jumpstart to work using a Linux server. The big problem I have is the apparent compatibility issues between Linux (2.6 kernel, tried both Fedora core 4 and 6) NFS version 4

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Jumpstart Linux NFSv4 mount problem

2007-01-12 Thread Spencer Shepler
I am still very interested in why NFSv4 did not work with the Linux server. That should be fixed so you don't have to go through these hurdles to install. Spencer On Fri, juan valdez wrote: OOPS. My bad. I realized in miniroot that in the /etc/default/nfs file I changed the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Jumpstart Linux NFSv4 mount problem

2007-01-12 Thread Spencer Shepler
Juan, Either tcpdump or snoop is fine from the server. And we can move this discussion to nfs-discuss for further NFS debugging. Spencer On Fri, juan valdez wrote: Alright. Let me try and do a snoop trace tomorrow when the new solaris machine's up. Thank you. You say I should do a trace

Re: [osol-discuss] NFSv4 Test Suite Released on OpenSolaris.org

2006-12-18 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Mon, Jim Walker wrote: Today we released the NFSv4 Test Suite on www.opensolaris.org. This is the first of several ON consolidation test suites that will be open sourced and released for use by the OpenSolaris community. The NFSv4 test suite source may be downloaded at:

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Object Storage Device (OSD) support for Solaris

2006-09-08 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Thu, James Carlson wrote: Cyril Plisko writes: The T10 OSD model provides a number of advantages over the aging block-based storage model in areas such as performance, scalability, and security. Storage vendors are currently developing storage devices that support the T10 OSD

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: NFSv4.1 pNFS

2006-08-20 Thread Spencer Shepler
I propose a new Open Solaris project to be called NFSv4.1 pNFS. With the forward momentum in the IETF NFSv4 working group around NFSv4.1 and pNFS specifically, it seems appropriate to start this project. While NFSv4.1 contains many new or additional features, the initial focus will be on the

[osol-discuss] NFS RDMA project page is available

2006-08-01 Thread Spencer Shepler
Hello. The NFS RDMA project page is up and running at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nfsrdma/ At this point, the basics are in place. We expect to post a snapshot of the current project source soon. Subscription info for nfsrdma-discuss may be found at:

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: NFS/RDMA

2006-05-10 Thread Spencer Shepler
I would like to propose the creation of an NFS/RDMA project to be affiliated with the OpenSolaris NFS community. The purpose of this project is to update the existing NFS/RDMA(Infiniband) support in OpenSolaris to match the most recent Internet Drafts on the topic. It would also undertake

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: solaris-internals

2006-03-17 Thread Spencer Shepler
On Fri, Rainer Orth wrote: Eric Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about file systems? Why have ZFS and UFS communities (and possibly NFS in the future) instead of one file system community with three file system projects under it? Speaking of which, it occured to me recently, when