Network Working Group S. Shepler Request for Comments: 3010 B. Callaghan Obsoletes: 1813, 1094 D. Robinson Category: Standards Track R. Thurlow Sun Microsystems Inc. C. Beame Hummingbird Ltd. M. Eisler Zambeel, Inc. D. Noveck Network Appliance, Inc. December 2000 NFS version 4 Protocol Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved. Abstract NFS (Network File System) version 4 is a distributed file system protocol which owes heritage to NFS protocol versions 2 [RFC1094] and 3 [RFC1813]. Unlike earlier versions, the NFS version 4 protocol supports traditional file access while integrating support for file locking and the mount protocol. In addition, support for strong security (and its negotiation), compound operations, client caching, and internationalization have been added. Of course, attention has been applied to making NFS version 4 operate well in an Internet environment. Key Words 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 RFC 2119. Shepler, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 3010 NFS version 4 Protocol December 2000 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1. Overview of NFS Version 4 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1.1. RPC and Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1.2. Procedure and Operation Structure . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.1.3. File System Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.1.3.1. Filehandle Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.1.3.2. Attribute Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.1.3.3. File System Replication and Migration . . . . . . . . 9 1.1.4. OPEN and CLOSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1.5. File locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1.6. Client Caching and Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2. General Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. Protocol Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.1. Basic Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2. Structured Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3. RPC and Security Flavor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.1. Ports and Transports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2. Security Flavors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.2.1. Security mechanisms for NFS version 4 . . . . . . . . . 19 3.2.1.1. Kerberos V5 as security triple . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.2.1.2. LIPKEY as a security triple . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.2.1.3. SPKM-3 as a security triple . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.3. Security Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3.1. Security Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3.2. SECINFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.4. Callback RPC Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4. Filehandles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.1. Obtaining the First Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.1.1. Root Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.1.2. Public Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.2. Filehandle Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.2.1. General Properties of a Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.2.2. Persistent Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.2.3. Volatile Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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