NFSv4 @ Connectathon 2000 · 1 week, March 2nd − 9th 2000, San Jose · 50 Companies/organizations/groups participated · www.connectathon.org · Six implementations came: – EMC Inc. (Server) – Hummingbird Communications Ltd . (Windows/NT Client and Server) – Network Appliance (Server) – Sun Microsystems (Solaris & Java client/server) – University of Michigan CITI (Linux client and server) · Solaris snoop sniffer extended with v4 decodes · New Tcl−based test client
Features Tested · Bread and Butter putrootfh, putfh, getfh, lookup, access, getattr, read, write, readdir · Harder Stuff open, create, rpcsec_gss – Zero client ids used to facilitate open/create
Issues · Draft revision mismatch – Draft 04 vs draft 06 · Atomicity of Open/Create – Linux cannot guarantee atomic open/create. – Prohibit local access ? · Cache consistency shortcomings – Delegation protects data − not attributes – No support for directory caching
Next Testing Event · July 11th − 13th, 2000 Santa Clara · See www.nfsv4.org for details
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