Re: Public NFSv4 handle?

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 21:28 +0100, Dan Shelton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 at 16:32, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2024-02-08 at 21:37 -0500, Tom Talpey wrote:
> > > On 2/8/2024 7:19 PM, Dan Shelton wrote:
> > > > ?
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 02:48, Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Do the Linux NFSv4 server and client support the NFS public handle?
> > > 
> > > Are you referring the the old WebNFS stuff? That was a v2/v3 thing,
> > > and, I believe, only ever supported by Solaris.
> > > 
> > 
> > One more try! I think my MUA was having issues this morning.
> > 
> > NFSv4.1 supports the PUTPUBFH op:
> > 
> > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8881.html#name-operation-23-putpubfh-set-p
> > 
> > ...but this op is only for backward compatibility. The Linux server
> > returns the rootfh (as it SHOULD).
> 
> No, I do not consider this "backward compatibility". The "public"
> option is also intended for public servers, like package mirrors (e.g.
> Debian), to have a better solution than http or ftp.
> 
> What does it take to implement a "public" export option?
> 

Just someone with a will to write the patches for it (including a way to
properly test it). I don't have a problem with making the public fh
settable on the Linux server, but we'd need to hear more about how the
client implementation would work.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>