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\&Network File System: Version 2 Protocol Specification

.IX NFS "" "" "" PAGE MAJOR

.IX "Network File System" "" "" "" PAGE MAJOR

.IX NFS "version-2 protocol specification"

.IX "Network File System" "version-2 protocol specification"

.LP

.NH 0

\&Status of this Standard

.LP

Note: This document specifies a protocol that Sun Microsystems, Inc.,

and others are using.  It specifies it in standard ARPA RFC form.

.NH 1

\&Introduction

.IX NFS introduction

.LP

The Sun Network Filesystem (NFS) protocol provides transparent remote

access to shared filesystems over local area networks.  The NFS

protocol is designed to be machine, operating system, network architecture,

and transport protocol independent.  This independence is

achieved through the use of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) primitives

built on top of an External Data Representation (XDR).  Implementations

exist for a variety of machines, from personal computers to

supercomputers.

.LP

The supporting mount protocol allows the server to hand out remote

access privileges to a restricted set of clients.  It performs the

operating system-specific functions that allow, for example, to

attach remote directory trees to some local file system.

.NH 2

\&Remote Procedure Call

.IX "Remote Procedure Call"

.LP

Sun's remote procedure call specification provides a procedure-

oriented interface to remote services.  Each server supplies a

program that is a set of procedures.  NFS is one such "program".

The combination of host address, program number, and procedure

number specifies one remote service procedure.  RPC does not depend

on services provided by specific protocols, so it can be used with

any underlying transport protocol.  See the

.I "Remote Procedure Calls: Protocol Specification"

chapter of this manual.

.NH 2

\&External Data Representation

.IX "External Data Representation"

.LP

The External Data Representation (XDR) standard provides a common

way of representing a set of data types over a network.

The NFS

Protocol Specification is written using the RPC data description

language.

For more information, see the

.I " External Data Representation Standard: Protocol Specification."

Sun provides implementations of XDR and

RPC,  but NFS does not require their use.  Any software that

provides equivalent functionality can be used, and if the encoding

is exactly the same it can interoperate with other implementations

of NFS.

.NH 2

\&Stateless Servers

.IX "stateless servers"

.IX servers stateless

.LP

The NFS protocol is stateless.  That is, a server does not need to

maintain any extra state information about any of its clients in

order to function correctly.  Stateless servers have a distinct

advantage over stateful servers in the event of a failure.  With

stateless servers, a client need only retry a request until the

server responds; it does not even need to know that the server has

crashed, or the network temporarily went down.  The client of a

stateful server, on the other hand, needs to either detect a server

crash and rebuild the server's state when it comes back up, or

cause client operations to fail.

.LP

This may not sound like an important issue, but it affects the

protocol in some unexpected ways.  We feel that it is worth a bit

of extra complexity in the protocol to be able to write very simple

servers that do not require fancy crash recovery.

.LP

On the other hand, NFS deals with objects such as files and

directories that inherently have state -- what good would a file be

if it did not keep its contents intact?  The goal is to not

introduce any extra state in the protocol itself.  Another way to

simplify recovery is by making operations "idempotent" whenever

possible (so that they can potentially be repeated).

.NH 1

\&NFS Protocol Definition

.IX NFS "protocol definition"

.IX NFS protocol

.LP

Servers have been known to change over time, and so can the

protocol that they use. So RPC provides a version number with each

RPC request. This RFC describes version two of the NFS protocol.

Even in the second version, there are various obsolete procedures

and parameters, which will be removed in later versions. An RFC

for version three of the NFS protocol is currently under

preparation.

.NH 2

\&File System Model

.IX filesystem model

.LP

NFS assumes a file system that is hierarchical, with directories as

all but the bottom-level files.  Each entry in a directory (file,

directory, device, etc.)  has a string name.  Different operating

systems may have restrictions on the depth of the tree or the names

used, as well as using different syntax to represent the "pathname",

which is the concatenation of all the "components" (directory and

file names) in the name.  A "file system" is a tree on a single

server (usually a single disk or physical partition) with a specified

"root".  Some operating systems provide a "mount" operation to make

all file systems appear as a single tree, while others maintain a

"forest" of file systems.  Files are unstructured streams of

uninterpreted bytes.  Version 3 of NFS uses a slightly more general

file system model.

.LP

NFS looks up one component of a pathname at a time.  It may not be

obvious why it does not just take the whole pathname, traipse down

the directories, and return a file handle when it is done.  There are

several good reasons not to do this.  First, pathnames need

separators between the directory components, and different operating

systems use different separators.  We could define a Network Standard

Pathname Representation, but then every pathname would have to be

parsed and converted at each end.  Other issues are discussed in

\fINFS Implementation Issues\fP below.

.LP

Although files and directories are similar objects in many ways,

different procedures are used to read directories and files.  This

provides a network standard format for representing directories.  The

same argument as above could have been used to justify a procedure

that returns only one directory entry per call.  The problem is

efficiency.  Directories can contain many entries, and a remote call

to return each would be just too slow.

.NH 2

\&RPC Information

.IX NFS "RPC information"

.IP \fIAuthentication\fP

The   NFS  service uses

.I AUTH_UNIX ,

.I AUTH_DES ,

or

.I AUTH_SHORT

style

authentication, except in  the  NULL procedure where

.I AUTH_NONE

is also allowed.

.IP "\fITransport Protocols\fP"

NFS currently is supported on UDP/IP only.

.IP "\fIPort Number\fP"

The NFS protocol currently uses the UDP port number 2049.  This is

not an officially assigned port, so  later versions of the protocol

use the \*QPortmapping\*U facility of RPC.

.NH 2

\&Sizes of XDR Structures

.IX "XDR structure sizes"

.LP

These are the sizes, given in decimal bytes, of various XDR

structures used in the protocol:

.DS

/* \fIThe maximum number of bytes of data in a READ or WRITE request\fP  */

const MAXDATA = 8192;

/* \fIThe maximum number of bytes in a pathname argument\fP */

const MAXPATHLEN = 1024;

/* \fIThe maximum number of bytes in a file name argument\fP */

const MAXNAMLEN = 255;

/* \fIThe size in bytes of the opaque "cookie" passed by READDIR\fP */

const COOKIESIZE  = 4;

/* \fIThe size in bytes of the opaque file handle\fP */

const FHSIZE = 32;

.DE

.NH 2

\&Basic Data Types

.IX "NFS data types"

.IX NFS "basic data types"

.LP

The following XDR  definitions are basic  structures and types used

in other structures described further on.

.KS

.NH 3

\&stat

.IX "NFS data types" stat "" \fIstat\fP

.DS

enum stat {

        NFS_OK = 0,

        NFSERR_PERM=1,

        NFSERR_NOENT=2,

        NFSERR_IO=5,

        NFSERR_NXIO=6,

        NFSERR_ACCES=13,

        NFSERR_EXIST=17,

        NFSERR_NODEV=19,

        NFSERR_NOTDIR=20,

        NFSERR_ISDIR=21,

        NFSERR_FBIG=27,

        NFSERR_NOSPC=28,

        NFSERR_ROFS=30,

        NFSERR_NAMETOOLONG=63,

        NFSERR_NOTEMPTY=66,

        NFSERR_DQUOT=69,

        NFSERR_STALE=70,

        NFSERR_WFLUSH=99

};

.DE

.KE

.LP

The

.I stat

type  is returned with every  procedure's  results.   A

value of

.I NFS_OK

indicates that the  call completed successfully and

the  results are  valid.  The  other  values indicate  some kind of

error  occurred on the  server  side  during the servicing   of the

procedure.  The error values are derived from UNIX error numbers.

.IP \fBNFSERR_PERM\fP:

Not owner.  The caller does not have correct ownership

to perform the requested operation.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NOENT\fP:

No such file or directory.    The file or directory

specified does not exist.

.IP \fBNFSERR_IO\fP:

Some sort of hard  error occurred when the operation was

in progress.  This could be a disk error, for example.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NXIO\fP:

No such device or address.

.IP \fBNFSERR_ACCES\fP:

Permission  denied.  The  caller does  not  have the

correct permission to perform the requested operation.

.IP \fBNFSERR_EXIST\fP:

File exists.  The file specified already exists.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NODEV\fP:

No such device.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NOTDIR\fP:

Not   a  directory.    The  caller  specified   a

non-directory in a directory operation.

.IP \fBNFSERR_ISDIR\fP:

Is a directory.  The caller specified  a directory in

a non- directory operation.

.IP \fBNFSERR_FBIG\fP:

File too large.   The  operation caused a file to grow

beyond the server's limit.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NOSPC\fP:

No space left on  device.   The operation caused the

server's filesystem to reach its limit.

.IP \fBNFSERR_ROFS\fP:

Read-only filesystem.  Write attempted on a read-only filesystem.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NAMETOOLONG\fP:

File name   too   long.  The file  name  in  an operation was too long.

.IP \fBNFSERR_NOTEMPTY\fP:

Directory   not empty.  Attempted  to   remove  a

directory that was not empty.

.IP \fBNFSERR_DQUOT\fP:

Disk quota exceeded.  The client's disk  quota on the

server has been exceeded.

.IP \fBNFSERR_STALE\fP:

The  "fhandle" given in   the arguments was invalid.

That is, the file referred to by that file handle no longer exists,

or access to it has been revoked.

.IP \fBNFSERR_WFLUSH\fP:

The server's  write cache  used  in the

.I WRITECACHE

call got flushed to disk.

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&ftype

.IX "NFS data types" ftype "" \fIftype\fP

.DS

enum ftype {

        NFNON = 0,

        NFREG = 1,

        NFDIR = 2,

        NFBLK = 3,

        NFCHR = 4,

        NFLNK = 5

};

.DE

.KE

The enumeration

.I ftype

gives the type of a file.  The type

.I NFNON

indicates a non-file,

.I NFREG

is a regular file,

.I NFDIR

is a directory,

.I NFBLK

is a block-special device,

.I NFCHR

is a character-special device, and

.I NFLNK

is a symbolic link.

.KS

.NH 3

\&fhandle

.IX "NFS data types" fhandle "" \fIfhandle\fP

.DS

typedef opaque fhandle[FHSIZE];

.DE

.KE

The

.I fhandle

is the file handle passed between the server and the client.

All file operations are done using file handles to refer to a file or

directory.  The file handle can contain whatever information the server

needs to distinguish an individual file.

.KS

.NH 3

\&timeval

.IX "NFS data types" timeval "" \fItimeval\fP

.DS

struct timeval {

        unsigned int seconds;

        unsigned int useconds;

};

.DE

.KE

The

.I timeval

structure is the number of seconds and microseconds

since midnight January 1, 1970, Greenwich Mean Time.  It is used to

pass time and date information.

.KS

.NH 3

\&fattr

.IX "NFS data types" fattr "" \fIfattr\fP

.DS

struct fattr {

        ftype        type;

        unsigned int mode;

        unsigned int nlink;

        unsigned int uid;

        unsigned int gid;

        unsigned int size;

        unsigned int blocksize;

        unsigned int rdev;

        unsigned int blocks;

        unsigned int fsid;

        unsigned int fileid;

        timeval      atime;

        timeval      mtime;

        timeval      ctime;

};

.DE

.KE

The

.I fattr

structure contains the attributes of a file; "type" is the type of

the file; "nlink" is the number of hard links to the file (the number

of different names for the same file); "uid" is the user

identification number of the owner of the file; "gid" is the group

identification number of the group of the file; "size" is the size in

bytes of the file; "blocksize" is the size in bytes of a block of the

file; "rdev" is the device number of the file if it is type

.I NFCHR

or

.I NFBLK ;

"blocks" is the number of blocks the file takes up on disk; "fsid" is

the file system identifier for the filesystem containing the file;

"fileid" is a number that uniquely identifies the file within its

filesystem; "atime" is the time when the file was last accessed for

either read or write; "mtime" is the time when the file data was last

modified (written); and "ctime" is the time when the status of the

file was last changed.  Writing to the file also changes "ctime" if

the size of the file changes.

.LP

"mode" is the access mode encoded as a set of bits.  Notice that the

file type is specified both in the mode bits and in the file type.

This is really a bug in the protocol and will be fixed in future

versions.  The descriptions given below specify the bit positions

using octal numbers.

.TS

box tab (&) ;

cfI cfI

lfL l .

Bit&Description

_

0040000&This is a directory; "type" field should be NFDIR.

0020000&This is a character special file; "type" field should be NFCHR.

0060000&This is a block special file; "type" field should be NFBLK.

0100000&This is a regular file; "type" field should be NFREG.

0120000&This is a symbolic link file;  "type" field should be NFLNK.

0140000&This is a named socket; "type" field should be NFNON.

0004000&Set user id on execution.

0002000&Set group id on execution.

0001000&Save swapped text even after use.

0000400&Read permission for owner.

0000200&Write permission for owner.

0000100&Execute and search permission for owner.

0000040&Read permission for group.

0000020&Write permission for group.

0000010&Execute and search permission for group.

0000004&Read permission for others.

0000002&Write permission for others.

0000001&Execute and search permission for others.

.TE

.KS

Notes:

.IP

The bits are  the same as the mode   bits returned  by  the

.I stat(2)

system call in the UNIX system.  The file  type is  specified  both in

the mode  bits  and in  the file type.   This   is fixed  in future

versions.

.IP

The "rdev" field in the attributes structure is an operating system

specific device specifier.  It  will be  removed and generalized in

the next revision of the protocol.

.KE

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&sattr

.IX "NFS data types" sattr "" \fIsattr\fP

.DS

struct sattr {

        unsigned int mode;

        unsigned int uid;

        unsigned int gid;

        unsigned int size;

        timeval      atime;

        timeval      mtime;

};

.DE

.KE

The

.I sattr

structure contains the file attributes which can be set

from the client.  The fields are the same as for

.I fattr

above.  A "size" of zero  means the file should be  truncated.

A value of -1 indicates a field that should be ignored.

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&filename

.IX "NFS data types" filename "" \fIfilename\fP

.DS

typedef string filename;

.DE

.KE

The type

.I filename

is used for  passing file names  or  pathname components.

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&path

.IX "NFS data types" path "" \fIpath\fP

.DS

typedef string path;

.DE

.KE

The type

.I path

is a pathname.  The server considers it as a string

with no internal structure,  but to the client  it is the name of a

node in a filesystem tree.

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&attrstat

.IX "NFS data types" attrstat "" \fIattrstat\fP

.DS

union attrstat switch (stat status) {

        case NFS_OK:

                fattr attributes;

        default:

                void;

};

.DE

.KE

The

.I attrstat

structure is a common procedure result.  It contains

a  "status" and,  if  the call   succeeded,   it also contains  the

attributes of the file on which the operation was done.

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&diropargs

.IX "NFS data types" diropargs "" \fIdiropargs\fP

.DS

struct diropargs {

        fhandle  dir;

        filename name;

};

.DE

.KE

The

.I diropargs

structure is used  in  directory  operations.  The

"fhandle" "dir" is the directory in  which to find the file "name".

A directory operation is one in which the directory is affected.

.LP

.KS

.NH 3

\&diropres

.IX "NFS data types" diropres "" \fIdiropres\fP

.DS

union diropres switch (stat status) {

        case NFS_OK:

                struct {

                        fhandle file;

                        fattr   attributes;

                } diropok;

        default:

                void;

};

.DE

.KE

The results of a directory operation  are returned  in a

.I diropres

structure.  If the call succeeded, a new file handle "file" and the

"attributes" associated with that file are  returned along with the

"status".

.NH 2

\&Server Procedures

.IX "NFS server procedures" "" "" "" PAGE MAJOR

.LP

The  protocol definition  is given as   a  set  of  procedures with

arguments  and results defined using the   RPC  language.   A brief

description of the function of each procedure should provide enough

information to allow implementation.

.LP

All of  the procedures  in   the NFS  protocol  are assumed  to  be

synchronous.   When a procedure  returns to the  client, the client

can assume that the operation has completed and any data associated

with the request is  now on stable storage.  For  example, a client

.I WRITE

request   may  cause  the   server  to  update  data  blocks,

filesystem information blocks (such as indirect  blocks),  and file

attribute  information (size  and  modify  times).  When  the

.I WRITE

returns to the client, it can assume  that the write  is safe, even

in case of  a server  crash, and  it can discard the  data written.

This is a very important part  of the statelessness  of the server.

If the server waited to flush data from remote requests, the client

would have to  save those requests so that  it could resend them in

case of a server crash.

.ie t .DS

.el .DS L

.ft I

/*

* Remote file service routines

*/

.ft CW

program NFS_PROGRAM {

        version NFS_VERSION {

                void        NFSPROC_NULL(void)              = 0;

                attrstat    NFSPROC_GETATTR(fhandle)        = 1;

                attrstat    NFSPROC_SETATTR(sattrargs)      = 2;

                void        NFSPROC_ROOT(void)              = 3;

                diropres    NFSPROC_LOOKUP(diropargs)       = 4;

                readlinkres NFSPROC_READLINK(fhandle)       = 5;

                readres     NFSPROC_READ(readargs)          = 6;

                void        NFSPROC_WRITECACHE(void)        = 7;

                attrstat    NFSPROC_WRITE(writeargs)        = 8;

                diropres    NFSPROC_CREATE(createargs)      = 9;

                stat        NFSPROC_REMOVE(diropargs)       = 10;

                stat        NFSPROC_RENAME(renameargs)      = 11;

                stat        NFSPROC_LINK(linkargs)          = 12;

                stat        NFSPROC_SYMLINK(symlinkargs)    = 13;

                diropres    NFSPROC_MKDIR(createargs)       = 14;

                stat        NFSPROC_RMDIR(diropargs)        = 15;

                readdirres  NFSPROC_READDIR(readdirargs)    = 16;

                statfsres   NFSPROC_STATFS(fhandle)         = 17;

        } = 2;

} = 100003;

.DE

.KS

.NH 3

\&Do Nothing

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_NULL() "" \fINFSPROC_NULL()\fP

.DS

void

NFSPROC_NULL(void) = 0;

.DE

.KE

This procedure does no work.   It is made available  in  all RPC

services to allow server response testing and timing.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Get File Attributes

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_GETATTR() "" \fINFSPROC_GETATTR()\fP

.DS

attrstat

NFSPROC_GETATTR (fhandle) = 1;

.DE

.KE

If the reply  status is

.I NFS_OK ,

then  the reply attributes contains

the attributes for the file given by the input fhandle.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Set File Attributes

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_SETATTR() "" \fINFSPROC_SETATTR()\fP

.DS

struct sattrargs {

        fhandle file;

        sattr attributes;

        };

attrstat

NFSPROC_SETATTR (sattrargs) = 2;

.DE

.KE

The  "attributes" argument  contains fields which are either  -1 or

are  the  new value for  the  attributes of  "file".   If the reply

status is

.I NFS_OK ,

then the  reply attributes have the attributes of

the file after the "SETATTR" operation has completed.

.LP

Note: The use of -1 to indicate an unused field in "attributes" is

changed in the next version of the protocol.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Get Filesystem Root

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_ROOT "" \fINFSPROC_ROOT\fP

.DS

void

NFSPROC_ROOT(void) = 3;

.DE

.KE

Obsolete.  This procedure  is no longer used   because  finding the

root file handle of a filesystem requires moving  pathnames between

client  and server.  To  do  this right we would  have  to define a

network standard representation of pathnames.  Instead, the

function  of  looking up  the   root  file handle  is  done  by the

.I MNTPROC_MNT()

procedure.    (See the

.I "Mount Protocol Definition"

later in this chapter for details).

.KS

.NH 3

\&Look Up File Name

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_LOOKUP() "" \fINFSPROC_LOOKUP()\fP

.DS

diropres

NFSPROC_LOOKUP(diropargs) = 4;

.DE

.KE

If  the reply "status"  is

.I NFS_OK ,

then the reply  "file" and reply

"attributes" are the file handle and attributes for the file "name"

in the directory given by "dir" in the argument.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Read From Symbolic Link

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_READLINK() "" \fINFSPROC_READLINK()\fP

.DS

union readlinkres switch (stat status) {

        case NFS_OK:

                path data;

        default:

                void;

};

readlinkres

NFSPROC_READLINK(fhandle) = 5;

.DE

.KE

If "status" has the value

.I NFS_OK ,

then the reply "data" is the data in

the symbolic link given by the file referred to by the fhandle argument.

.LP

Note:  since   NFS always  parses pathnames    on the  client, the

pathname in  a symbolic  link may  mean something  different (or be

meaningless) on a different client or on the server if  a different

pathname syntax is used.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Read From File

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_READ "" \fINFSPROC_READ\fP

.DS

struct readargs {

        fhandle file;

        unsigned offset;

        unsigned count;

        unsigned totalcount;

};

union readres switch (stat status) {

        case NFS_OK:

                fattr attributes;

                opaque data;

        default:

                void;

};

readres

NFSPROC_READ(readargs) = 6;

.DE

.KE

Returns  up  to  "count" bytes of   "data" from  the file  given by

"file", starting at "offset" bytes from  the beginning of the file.

The first byte of the file is  at offset zero.  The file attributes

after the read takes place are returned in "attributes".

.LP

Note: The  argument "totalcount" is  unused, and is removed in the

next protocol revision.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Write to Cache

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_WRITECACHE() "" \fINFSPROC_WRITECACHE()\fP

.DS

void

NFSPROC_WRITECACHE(void) = 7;

.DE

.KE

To be used in the next protocol revision.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Write to File

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_WRITE() "" \fINFSPROC_WRITE()\fP

.DS

struct writeargs {

        fhandle file;

        unsigned beginoffset;

        unsigned offset;

        unsigned totalcount;

        opaque data;

};

attrstat

NFSPROC_WRITE(writeargs) = 8;

.DE

.KE

Writes   "data" beginning  "offset"  bytes  from the  beginning  of

"file".  The first byte  of  the file is at  offset  zero.  If  the

reply "status" is NFS_OK, then  the reply "attributes" contains the

attributes  of the file after the  write has  completed.  The write

operation is atomic.  Data from this  call to

.I WRITE

will not be mixed with data from another client's calls.

.LP

Note: The arguments "beginoffset" and "totalcount" are ignored and

are removed in the next protocol revision.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Create File

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_CREATE() "" \fINFSPROC_CREATE()\fP

.DS

struct createargs {

        diropargs where;

        sattr attributes;

};

diropres

NFSPROC_CREATE(createargs) = 9;

.DE

.KE

The file "name" is created  in the directory given  by "dir".   The

initial  attributes of the  new file  are given by "attributes".  A

reply "status"  of NFS_OK indicates that the  file was created, and

reply "file"   and   reply "attributes"  are    its file handle and

attributes.   Any  other reply  "status"  means that  the operation

failed and no file was created.

.LP

Note: This  routine should pass  an exclusive create flag, meaning

"create the file only if it is not already there".

.KS

.NH 3

\&Remove File

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_REMOVE() "" \fINFSPROC_REMOVE()\fP

.DS

stat

NFSPROC_REMOVE(diropargs) = 10;

.DE

.KE

The file "name" is  removed from the directory  given by "dir".   A

reply of NFS_OK means the directory entry was removed.

.LP

Note: possibly non-idempotent operation.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Rename File

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_RENAME() "" \fINFSPROC_RENAME()\fP

.DS

struct renameargs {

        diropargs from;

        diropargs to;

};

stat

NFSPROC_RENAME(renameargs) = 11;

.DE

.KE

The existing file "from.name" in  the directory given by "from.dir"

is renamed to "to.name" in the directory given by "to.dir".  If the

reply  is

.I NFS_OK ,

the file was  renamed.  The

RENAME

operation is

atomic on the server; it cannot be interrupted in the middle.

.LP

Note: possibly non-idempotent operation.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Create Link to File

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_LINK() "" \fINFSPROC_LINK()\fP

.DS

struct linkargs {

        fhandle from;

        diropargs to;

};

stat

NFSPROC_LINK(linkargs) = 12;

.DE

.KE

Creates the  file "to.name"  in the directory  given   by "to.dir",

which is a hard link to the existing file given  by "from".  If the

return value is

.I NFS_OK ,

a link was created.  Any other return value

indicates an error, and the link was not created.

.LP

A hard link should have the property that changes  to either of the

linked files are reflected in both files.  When a hard link is made

to a  file, the attributes  for  the file should  have  a value for

"nlink" that is one greater than the value before the link.

.LP

Note: possibly non-idempotent operation.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Create Symbolic Link

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_SYMLINK() "" \fINFSPROC_SYMLINK()\fP

.DS

struct symlinkargs {

        diropargs from;

        path to;

        sattr attributes;

};

stat

NFSPROC_SYMLINK(symlinkargs) = 13;

.DE

.KE

Creates the  file "from.name" with  ftype

.I NFLNK

in  the  directory

given by "from.dir".   The new file contains  the pathname "to" and

has initial attributes given by "attributes".  If  the return value

is

.I NFS_OK ,

a link was created.  Any other return value indicates an

error, and the link was not created.

.LP

A symbolic  link is  a pointer to another file.   The name given in

"to" is  not interpreted by  the server, only stored in  the  newly

created file.  When the client references a file that is a symbolic

link, the contents of the symbolic  link are normally transparently

reinterpreted  as a pathname  to substitute.   A

.I READLINK

operation returns the data to the client for interpretation.

.LP

Note:  On UNIX servers the attributes are never used, since

symbolic links always have mode 0777.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Create Directory

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_MKDIR() "" \fINFSPROC_MKDIR()\fP

.DS

diropres

NFSPROC_MKDIR (createargs) = 14;

.DE

.KE

The new directory "where.name" is created in the directory given by

"where.dir".  The initial attributes of the new directory are given

by "attributes".  A reply "status" of NFS_OK indicates that the new

directory was created, and reply "file" and  reply "attributes" are

its file  handle and attributes.  Any  other  reply "status"  means

that the operation failed and no directory was created.

.LP

Note: possibly non-idempotent operation.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Remove Directory

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_RMDIR() "" \fINFSPROC_RMDIR()\fP

.DS

stat

NFSPROC_RMDIR(diropargs) = 15;

.DE

.KE

The existing empty directory "name" in the directory given by "dir"

is removed.  If the reply is

.I NFS_OK ,

the directory was removed.

.LP

Note: possibly non-idempotent operation.

.KS

.NH 3

\&Read From Directory

.IX "NFS server procedures" NFSPROC_READDIR() "" \fINFSPROC_READDIR()\fP

.DS

struct readdirargs {

        fhandle dir;

        nfscookie cookie;

        unsigned count;

};

struct entry {

        unsigned fileid;

        filename name;

        nfscookie cookie;

        entry *nextentry;

};

union readdirres switch (stat status) {

        case NFS_OK:

                struct {

                        entry *entries;

                        bool eof;