From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Error mounting FC8 NFS server with 2.6.31-rc3 NFSv4 client. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:36:50 -0700 Message-ID: <4A65FCB2.6080903@candelatech.com> References: <4A64EB1F.4000602@candelatech.com> <1248178527.5222.0.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <4A65F184.5060802@candelatech.com> <1248196339.21343.8.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linux-kernel , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:51594 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755171AbZGURgz (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:36:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1248196339.21343.8.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/21/2009 10:12 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 09:49 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 07/21/2009 05:15 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> >>> What does /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery look like on the server? >> The server was misconfigured, but I still think the client should >> behave better in this case. If you cannot reproduce it, let me know >> and I can try to be more specific. If you still want the v4recovery >> information, let me know and I'll send it. > > So how should the client behave, when a screwed up server allows it to > mount but starts returning illegal values for setclientid? The only > thing I can see we could do is to tell the user EINSANESERVER... Well, it could just fail the mount and give up and not overly spam /var/log/messages in a tight loop perhaps? > Now, we _should_ fix the wretched NFS server so that it doesn't do NFSv4 > mounts when there is no configured root partition. We _should_ also fix > the damned thing so that it doesn't return illegal values. Sounds fine to me. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com