From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: Error mounting FC8 NFS server with 2.6.31-rc3 NFSv4 client. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:59:00 -0400 Message-ID: <1248199140.21343.17.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <4A64EB1F.4000602@candelatech.com> <1248178527.5222.0.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <4A65F184.5060802@candelatech.com> <1248196339.21343.8.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <4A65FCB2.6080903@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-kernel , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from mail-out1.uio.no ([129.240.10.57]:35714 "EHLO mail-out1.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751698AbZGUR7E (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:59:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A65FCB2.6080903@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:36 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > 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? This doesn't happen at mount time. It happens when you open a file. Trond