[webmin-devel] Modification of Mount and Exports module for NFSv4

[Jolly F. <fre...@ex...>]

Hello Jamie, hello all,

I'm working on the administration of NFSv4 on Linux. (the implementation of 
NFSv4 on Linux is currently developped by the CITI: 
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/ )

I'm modifying the two modules: "NFS Exports" and "Disk and
Network Filesystems" to add them the support of NFSv4. I will also create two 
new modules needed by NFSv4: "idmapd" and "Kerberos5".

Since the two first modules already exist, I'd like to have your opinion about 
the new interface I propose.
You will find html static pages in the following link:
http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/webmin_design/

The main differences between NFSv3 and NFSv4 are:
- Mount: new options (including authentication), udp is no more allowed
- Exportfs: new options (including authentication). You no more export 
directories but instead a pseudofilesystem, which will be mounted from the 
clients as '/'. This pseudofs is populated on the server with the command 
"mount --bind". 

I have put some comments and questions, if you can answer to them (Jamie?).
If you have some questions or suggestions, if you think something is wrong, 
please do not hesitate to tell me.

Regards,
Fred.