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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Status of NFS v3 client/server Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:34:05 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <R.3244C1BD.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> References: <51rtt3$rm@sanson.dit.upm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Javier Martin Rueda <jmrueda@diatel.upm.es> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Javier Martin Rueda wrote: > > Hi. What is the state of NFS v3 in FreeBSD? Is it done, half-done, > or not even begun. Is it available in 2.1.5-R, 2.2-current...? 2.2-current contains the current state of NFS v3. The last opinion I heard expressed about it was "it works, sort of, but I wouldn't trust my filesystems to it! :-)" For a far more informed opinion, I'd ask Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org> as he's the one who was last in there. > In any case, if I was to write a NFS v3 client and server for > FreeBSD, what books or other sources of information would you > recommend? I already have the NFS v3 spec, have played with NFS v2 > clients, and have some knowledge of kernel internals, but I don't > know well the vnode mechanism, and probably other things that > would be necessary to accomplish this task. If you're looking for generic BSD 4.4 info, Kirk's new book would probably be a good bet. There's a reference to it at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook262.html#560 -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project