Re: [nfsv4] [FedFS] Meeting Minutes, 9/16/2010

[James Lentini <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Robert Thurlow wrote:

> James Lentini wrote:
> > FedFS Meeting Minutes, 9/16/2010
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Apologies for missing the meeting, I had to take my wife to
> the doctor.  I am also going to miss the BAT, but we will
> have the Solaris FedFS prototype code there for testing.
> The bits we had last time are updated to draft-05 of the
> admin spec and draft-09 of the NSDB spec.
>
> > + October Bake-a-thon Planning
> > 
> >   Chuck asked if anyone was planning to setup a DNS server with an
> >   NFS SRV record from draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-dns-srv-namespace? 
> >   Nobody had plans to set one up, but we agreed that it would be
> > interesting if there were NFS client implementations to test.
> > 
> >   To test the NFS SRV record, would a special root NFS server be
> > necessary? Trond and Craig explained that a special server would   not be
> > necessary, assuming the NFS client is interpreting the   DNS SRV record. The
> > NFS server could be an ordinary fileserver   or one that supports junctions.
> > Either would work for testing   the NFS SRV record.
> > 
> >   Trond suggested a competition: whoever gets their fileserver up   first
> > gets to be root.
> > 
> >   We'll coordinate with Sorin to configure a DNS server with an   SRV
> > record.
> 
> I appear to have some modifications to the Solaris automounter
> which work to do the DNS query and mount a FedFS namespace root.
> They will be part of what we bring to the BAT.  I can send along
> a sample DNS server setup, as well.

I think that would be great.
 
> >   James reported that he had begun updating the Admin draft.
> 
> >  	- An error code (FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_REFERRAL) and text (5.3.1) was added
> > for LDAP referrals.
> 
> Should this not be FEDFS_ERR_LDAP_REFERRAL?

The other LDAP related error values use a prefix of "FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_": 
FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_LDAP and FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_LDAP_VAL. 
FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_REFERRAL seemed to fit in that naming scheme. I think 
FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_LDAP_REFERRAL would also make sense.

Does naming this error FEDFS_ERR_NSDB_LDAP_REFERRAL sound better or 
worse?

-james