From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Change default behavior when "sec=" is not specified by user Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:35:34 -0400 Message-ID: <1251830134.18608.38.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <20090901143012.3978.11441.stgit@matisse.1015granger.net> <20090901150545.GA22846@fieldses.org> <7C5C14D9-F315-4DF8-A2F4-C7F0981AC968@oracle.com> <20090901151830.GC22846@fieldses.org> <18678BB3-52C6-4376-BBD1-50B8947BAAC7@oracle.com> <20090901160914.GG22846@fieldses.org> <73E8EAAF-9164-4F78-A9D4-1CC86A6A6255@oracle.com> <20090901163846.GJ22846@fieldses.org> <1251829540.18608.31.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <1251829737.18608.34.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:59868 "EHLO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbZIASfl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:35:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1251829737.18608.34.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 14:28 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > We should also try it if the server is broken, and returns an empty > list, but only after first attempting to cycle through all the other > flavours that are supported by the client. Note that this is also what we'll have to do in the case of NFSv4 minor version 0, when trying to get round the problem of applying SECINFO to the root directory. NFSv4.1 doesn't have that problem, since you are always allowed to do "PUTROOTFH; SECINFO_NO_NAME"... Trond