FedFsUtilsRoadmap

Release

Calendar

Features

0.11

3Q CY14

• Beta quality
• APIs and CLIs becoming stable
• Prototype high-level FedFS domain administration tools and documentation
• Junction auditing

0.10

1Q CY14

• Alpha quality
• APIs and CLIs becoming stable
• RPCSEC GSSAPI support in rpc.fedfsd and fedfs admin clients
• Turn-key admin scripts for setting up domain root and NSDB
• Search for NCE instead of using NSDB's namingContext

Release

Date

Features

0.9

February 26, 2013

• Alpha quality, technology preview
• APIs and CLIs unstable
• Support final DNS SRV format
• Support final FedFS NSDB schema
• Support TLS and NSDB server authentication in NSDB clients
• Follow LDAP referrals during FedFS junction resolution

0.8

February 6, 2012

• Alpha quality, technology preview
• APIs and CLIs unstable
• Non-backward compatible: New XML-based junction implementation
• Non-backward compatible: Represent pathnames as arrays in more places
• "nfsref" command for managing local junctions
• Support for NFS basic junctions
• nfsref and rpc.fedfsd flush kernel's export cache
• New nsdb_create_fsls_s() API
• Replace "resolve-junction" command with plug-in library
• Sample init scripts now included under contrib/
• Internal static libraries converted to dynamic libraries

0.7

September 3, 2011

• Alpha quality, technology preview
• APIs and CLIs unstable, except as noted
• New program map for automounter
• Full set of man pages for administrative tools
• Support for FEDFS_NSDB_PASSWD environment variable
• FedFS ADMIN RPC clients now handle FEDFS_ERR_DELAY
• New nsdb_ping_s() API
• New tools and APIs for managing NSDB container information
• Support packaging via RPM and other tools

0.6

March 29, 2011

• Alpha quality, technology preview
• APIs and CLIs unstable
• rpc.fedfsd and fedfs admin clients, no GSS support
• NSDB clients, no TLS support
• mount.fedfs prototype
• rpc.mountd, resolve-junction program, kernel patches for junction resolution