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NFSV4(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual NFSV4(4) NAME nfsv4 -- NFS Version 4 Protocol SYNOPSIS experimental client and server with NFSv4 support DESCRIPTION The experimental nfs client and server provides support for the NFSv4 specification; see Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Protocol RFC 3530. The protocol is somewhat similar to NFS Version 3, but differs in signif- icant ways. It uses a single Compound RPC that concatenates operations to-gether. Each of these operations are similar to the RPCs of NFS Ver- sion 3. The operations in the compound are performed in order, until one of them fails (returns an error) and then the RPC terminates at that point. It has integrated locking support, which implies that the server is no longer stateless. As such, the NFSv4 server remains in recovery mode for a Grace period (always greater than the lease duration the server uses) after a reboot. During this Grace period, clients may recover state but not perform other open/lock state changing operations. To provide for correct recovery semantics, a small file described by stablerestart(5) is used by the server during the recovery phase. If this file is missing, the server will not start. If this file is lost, it should be recovered from backups, since creating an empty stablerestart(5) file will result in the server starting without providing a Grace Period for recovery. Note that recovery only occurs when the server machine is rebooted, not when the nfsd(8) are just restarted. It provides several optional features not in NFS Version 3: - NFS Version 4 ACLs - Referrals, which redirect subtrees to other servers (not yet implemented) - Delegations, which allow a client to operate on a file locally The NFSv4 protocol does not use a separate mount protocol and assumes that the server provides a single file system tree structure, rooted at the point in the local file system tree specified by one or more V4: <rootdir> [-sec=secflavors] [host(s) or net] line(s) in the exports(5) file. (See exports(5) for details.) The nfsd(8) allows a limited subset of operations to be performed on non-ex- ported subtrees of the local file system, so that traversal of the tree to the exported subtrees is possible. As such, the ``<rootdir>'' can be in a non-exported file system. However, the entire tree that is rooted at that point must be in local file systems that are of types that can be NFS exported. Since the nfsv4 file system is rooted at ``<rootdir>'', setting this to anything other than ``/'' will result in clients being required to use different mount paths for nfsv4 than for NFS Version 2 or 3. Unlike NFS Version 2 and 3, Version 4 allows a client mount to span across multiple server file systems, although not all clients are capable of doing this. nfsv4 uses names for users and groups instead of numbers. On the wire, they take the form: <user>@<dns.domain> where ``<dns.domain>'' is not the same as the DNS domain used for host name lookups, but is usually set to the same string. Most systems set this ``<dns.domain>'' to the domain name part of the machine's hostname(1) by default. However, this can normally be overridden by a command line option or configuration file for the daemon used to do the name<->number mapping. On FreeBSD, the mapping daemon is called nfsuserd(8) and has a command line option that overrides the domain com- ponent of the machine's hostname. For use of nfsv4, either client or server, this daemon must be running. If this ``<dns.domain>'' is not set correctly or the daemon is not running, ``ls -l'' will typically report a lot of ``nobody'' and ``nogroup'' ownerships. Although uid/gid numbers are no longer used in the nfsv4 protocol, they will still be in the RPC authentication fields when running using AUTH_SYS (sec=sys), which is the default. As such, in this case both the user/group name and number spaces must be consistent between the client and server. However, if you run nfsv4 with RPCSEC_GSS (sec=krb5, krb5i, krb5p), only names and KerberosV tickets will go on the wire. SERVER SETUP To set up the experimental nfs server that supports nfsv4 you will need to either build a kernel with: options NFSD and not options NFSSERVER or start mountd(8) and nfsd(8) with the ``-e'' option to force use of the experimental server. The nfsuserd(8) daemon must also be running. This will occur if nfs_server_enable="YES" nfsv4_server_enable="YES" nfsuserd_enable="YES" are set in rc.conf(5). You will also need to add at least one ``V4:'' line to the exports(5) file and, before starting the server for the first time, create an empty /var/db/nfs-stablerestart file. The command install -o root -g wheel -m 600 /dev/null /var/db/nfs-stablerestart executed as ``su'' should suffice. This can only be done when the server is not running and there are no nfsv4 file system mounts against the server. If this file is lost during a crash, recovery from backups is recommended. If the file systems you are exporting are only being accessed via nfsv4 there are a couple of sysctl(8) variables that you can change, which might improve performance. vfs.newnfs.issue_delegations when set non-zero, allows the server to issue Open Delegations to clients. These delegations permit the client to manipulate the file locally on the client. Unfortunately, at this time, client use of delegations is limited, so performance gains may not be observed. This can only be enabled when the file systems being exported to nfsv4 clients are not being accessed locally on the server and, if being accessed via NFS Version 2 or 3 clients, these clients cannot be using the NLM. vfs.newnfs.enable_locallocks can be set to 0 to disable acquisition of local byte range locks. Disabling local locking can only be done if neither local ac- cesses to the exported file systems nor the NLM is operating on them. Note that Samba server access would be considered ``local access'' for the above discussion. To build a kernel with the experimental nfsv4 linked into it, the options NFSD must be specified in the kernel's config(5) file. CLIENT MOUNTS To do an nfsv4 mount, specify the ``nfsv4'' option on the mount_nfs(8) command line. This will force use of the experimental client plus set ``tcp'' and nfsv4. The nfsuserd(8) must be running, as above. If the nfsv4 server that is being mounted on supports delegations, you can start the nfscbd(8) daemon to handle client side callbacks. This will occur if nfsuserd_enable="YES" nfscbd_enable="YES" are set in rc.conf(5). Without a functioning callback path, a server will never issue Delega- tions to a client. By default, the callback address will be set to the IP address acquired via rtalloc() in the kernel and port# 7745. To override the default port#, a command line option for nfscbd(8) can be used. To get callbacks to work when behind a NAT gateway, a port for the call- back service will need to be set up on the NAT gateway and then the ad- dress of the NAT gateway (host IP plus port#) will need to be set by as- signing the sysctl(8) variable vfs.newnfs.callback_addr to a string of the form: N.N.N.N.N.N where the first 4 Ns are the host IP address and the last two are the port# in network byte order (all decimal #s in the range 0-255). To build a kernel with the experimental nfsv4 client linked into it, the option options NFSCL must be specified in the kernel's config(5) file. Options can be specified for the nfsuserd(8) and nfscbd(8) daemons at boot time via the ``nfsuserd_flags'' and ``nfscbd_flags'' rc.conf(5) variables. FILES /var/db/nfs-stablerestart NFS V4 stable restart file SEE ALSO stablerestart(5) mountd(8) nfscbd(8) nfsd(8) nfsdumpstate(8) nfsrevoke(8) nfsuserd(8) BUGS At this time, there is no recall of delegations for local file system op- erations. As such, delegations should only be enabled for file systems that are being used soley as NFS export volumes and are not being ac- cessed via local system calls nor services such as Samba. BSD April 30, 2009 BSD
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