Technical Summary
This document describes a filesystem federation protocol 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.
Working Group Summary
The FedFS protocol as to be used with NFSv4 file servers is an
important component to providing enterprise usable federated
NFSv4 file systems. Combined with the Administration Protocol
for Federated Filesystems, and NFSv4 protocols a complete
solution is possible and provides substantial utility.
Document Quality
Not only is the NSDB Protocol for Federated Filesystems document
complete, readable and useful as a guide to implementation and
interoperability, this has been proven by prototype
implementations that have been built by those authoring the
document. This is an important culture of the NFSv4 working
group and has become the norm of behavior for the work product
generated by the working group.
Personnel
Spencer Shepler (sshepler@microsoft.com) is the document shepherd.
Martin Stiemerling (martin.stiemerling@neclab.eu) is the responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
1. Please remove Daniel Ellard from the list of author
2. Add this text to Appendix A. Acknowledgments:
'Daniel Ellard contributed significant parts to this draft.'