Re: [PATCH 0/4] NFS mounting with raw IPv6 server hostnames

[Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:17 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hi Trond-
> 
> Something meatier today.
> 
> These four patches introduce the ability to mount NFS servers using a raw
> IPv6 address.  This support requires the ability to handle colons in the
> passed-in server hostname, and the ability to handle an IPv6 interface
> identifier in the passed-in server hostname.
> 
> IPv6 addresses contain colons.  A colon is also used to separate the server
> name from the export path.  By enclosing an IPv6 address inside square
> brackets we effectively escape the colons in the IPv6 address and allow them
> to pass unrecognized through the device name parser.
> 
> As an added bonus, I also include the patch that changes
> nfs_parse_server_address() to take a name length.  This allows the passed-in
> address string to have no '\0'-termination, which will help us support IPv6
> for NFSv4 referrals.
> 
> Please consider these for 2.6.27.
> 
> ---
> 
> Chuck Lever (4):
>       NFS: handle interface identifiers in incoming IPv6 addresses
>       NFS: Add string length argument to nfs_parse_server_address
>       NFS: Support raw IPv6 address hostnames during NFS mount operation
>       NFS: Use common device name parsing logic for NFSv4 and NFSv2/v3
> 
> 
>  fs/nfs/super.c |  336 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
> 

All 4 patches applied to the 'devel' branch.

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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