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Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
 "I'm thrilled to announce that the Linux in-kernel NFS server now
  offers NFSv4 write delegations. A write delegation enables a client to
  cache data and metadata for a single file more aggressively, reducing
  network round trips and server workload. Many thanks to Dai Ngo for
  contributing this facility, and to Jeff Layton and Neil Brown for
  reviewing and testing it.

  This release also sees the removal of all support for DES- and
  triple-DES-based Kerberos encryption types in the kernel's SunRPC
  implementation. These encryption types have been deprecated by the
  Internet community for years and are considered insecure. This change
  affects both the in-kernel NFS client and server.

  The server's UDP and TCP socket transports have now fully adopted
  David Howells' new bio_vec iterator so that no more than one sendmsg()
  call is needed to transmit each RPC message. In particu...