svn commit: r48575 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 12 20:54:27 UTC 2016

Author: wblock
Date: Tue Apr 12 20:54:26 2016
New Revision: 48575
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48575

Log:
  Add NFS server report from Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca>.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 18:42:10 2016	(r48574)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 20:54:26 2016	(r48575)
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@
   </project>
 
   <project cat='doc'>
+    <icon>doc-mid.jpg</icon>
+
     <title>Spanish FAQ and Chinese Porter's Handbook
       Translations</title>
 
@@ -192,4 +194,45 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='kern'>
+    <title>NFS server</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Rick</given>
+	  <common>Macklem</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>rmacklem at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links></links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>A new option "-manage-gids" was added to the nfsuserd
+	daemon.  This option tells the NFS server to use the list of
+	groups for a uid on the server and not the list of groups in
+	the NFS RPC request. Use of this option avoids the 16 group
+	limit for NFS RPCs using AUTH_SYS (the default).</p>
+
+      <p>Work is ongoing with respect to development of pNFS support
+	for the NFS server using GlusterFS as a back end.  This will
+	be a long term project with the eventual goal of allowing the
+	NFS server to scale beyond a single server system.  Hopefully
+	it will be available for testing in late Spring 2016.  pNFS
+	allows a NFSv4.1 client to do reads/writes directly to a data
+	server and not the NFS server.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Development of the pNFS server will be in need of testing
+	  or it will never progress to a near production status.  I
+	  hope to have code available in FreeBSD's subversion projects
+	  branch for testing in late spring 2016.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
