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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
index 092fad92a3f0..01c2db769791 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfs41-server.txt
@@ -39,21 +39,10 @@ interoperability problems with future clients. Known issues:
from a linux client are possible, but we aren't really
conformant with the spec (for example, we don't use kerberos
on the backchannel correctly).
- - Incomplete backchannel support: incomplete backchannel gss
- support and no support for BACKCHANNEL_CTL mean that
- callbacks (hence delegations and layouts) may not be
- available and clients confused by the incomplete
- implementation may fail.
- We do not support SSV, which provides security for shared
client-server state (thus preventing unauthorized tampering
with locks and opens, for example). It is mandatory for
servers to support this, though no clients use it yet.
- - Mandatory operations which we do not support, such as
- DESTROY_CLIENTID, are not currently used by clients, but will be
- (and the spec recommends their uses in common cases), and
- clients should not be expected to know how to recover from the
- case where they are not supported. This will eventually cause
- interoperability failures.
In addition, some limitations are inherited from the current NFSv4
implementation:
@@ -89,7 +78,7 @@ Operations
| | MNI | or OPT) | |
+----------------------+------------+--------------+----------------+
| ACCESS | REQ | | Section 18.1 |
-NS | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 |
+I | BACKCHANNEL_CTL | REQ | | Section 18.33 |
I | BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.34 |
| CLOSE | REQ | | Section 18.2 |
| COMMIT | REQ | | Section 18.3 |
@@ -99,7 +88,7 @@ NS*| DELEGPURGE | OPT | FDELG (REQ) | Section 18.5 |
| DELEGRETURN | OPT | FDELG, | Section 18.6 |
| | | DDELG, pNFS | |
| | | (REQ) | |
-NS | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 |
+I | DESTROY_CLIENTID | REQ | | Section 18.50 |
I | DESTROY_SESSION | REQ | | Section 18.37 |
I | EXCHANGE_ID | REQ | | Section 18.35 |
I | FREE_STATEID | REQ | | Section 18.38 |
@@ -192,7 +181,6 @@ EXCHANGE_ID:
CREATE_SESSION:
* backchannel attributes are ignored
-* backchannel security parameters are ignored
SEQUENCE:
* no support for dynamic slot table renegotiation (optional)
@@ -202,7 +190,7 @@ Nonstandard compound limitations:
ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may
fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel
negotiation.
-* No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per
- compound.
+* No more than one read-like operation allowed per compound; encoding
+ replies that cross page boundaries (except for read data) not handled.
See also http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_4.0_and_4.1_issues.