NFSv4 Working Group J. Lentini
Internet-Draft NetApp
Intended status: Standards Track D. Ellard
Expires: June 15, 2013 Raytheon BBN Technologies
R. Tewari
IBM Almaden
C. Lever, Ed.
Oracle Corporation
December 12, 2012
Administration Protocol for Federated Filesystems
draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-fs-admin-15
Abstract
This document describes the administration protocol for a federated
file system that enables file access and namespace traversal across
collections of independently administered fileservers. The protocol
specifies a set of interfaces by which fileservers with different
administrators can form a fileserver federation that provides a
namespace composed of the filesystems physically hosted on and
exported by the constituent fileservers.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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Lentini, et al. Expires June 15, 2013 [Page 2]Internet-Draft Admin Protocol for Federated Filesystems December 2012Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Error Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4. Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.1. FedFsNsdbName Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.1. FEDFS_NULL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.1. Synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.2. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.3. Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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