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@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Significant changes for nfs-utils 1.1.0 - March/April 2007 + + - rpc.lockd is gone. One 3 old kernel releases need it. + - rpc.rquotad is gone. Use the one from the 'quota' package. + Everyone else does. + - /sbin/{u,}mount.nfs{,4} are now installed so 'mount' will + use these to mount nfs filesystems instead of internal code. + + mount.nfs will check for 'statd' to be running when mounting + a filesystem which requires it. If it is not running it will + run "/usr/sbin/start-statd" to try to start it. + If statd is not running and cannot be started, mount.nfs will + refuse to mount the filesystem and will suggest the 'nolock' + option. + - Substantial changes to statd + + The 'notify' process that must happen at boot has been split + into a separate program "sm-notify". It ensures that it + only runs once even if you restart statd. This is correct + behaviour. + + statd stores state in the files in /var/lib/nfs/sm/ so that + if you kill and restart it, it will restore that state and + continue working correctly. + + statd makes more use of DNS lookup and should handle + multi-homed peers better. In particular, files in + /var/lib/nfs/sm/ are named with the Full Qualified Domain Name + if available. + - If you export a directory as 'crossmnt', all filesystems + mounted beneath are automatically exported with the same + options (unless explicitly exported with different options). + - subtree_check is no-longer the default. The default is now + no_subtree_check. + - By default the system 'rpcgen' is used while building + nfs-utils rather than the internal one. + - Exportfs will warn if you try to export a filesystem that does + not support NFS export. + - Comprehensive notes on startup dependencies have been added + to the README file. + - Mount and statd now listen on a non-privileged port by default. + For maximum safety an upgrade to portmap-6.0 is recommended. + http://neil.brown.name/portmap/ + git://neil.brown.name/portmap + + - This release should work with MIT Kerberos and Heimdal 0.8.1 and later. + + - A new option, -n, was added to rpc.gssd which specifies that + accesses by root should not use 'machine credentials' when + accessing NFS file systems mounted with Kerberos. Using this + option allows the root user to access the NFS space using any + Kerberos principal, rather than always using the machine + credentials. However, its use also requires that root manually + authenticate before attempting a mount with Kerberos. + + When rpc.gssd uses machine credentials, the selection algorithm has + been changed. Instead of simply using the first "nfs/*" key in the + keytab, the keytab is now searched for keys in the following + defined order: + + root/<fqdn>@REALM + nfs/<fqdn>@REALM + host/<fqdn>@REALM + root/<any-name>@REALM + nfs/<any-name>@REALM + host/<any-name>@REALM + |