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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:34:49 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
CC: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, ML netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix infinite loop in gss_create_upcall()
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On 04/12/2011 08:31 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> Yes, it fixes the problem. But it waits 15s before it times out. This is
>> inacceptable for automounted NFS dirs.
> 
> I'm still confused as to why you are hitting it at all. In the normal
> autonegotiation case, the client should be trying to use AUTH_SYS first
> and then trying rpcsec_gss if and only if that fails.
> 
> Are you really exporting a filesystem using AUTH_NULL as the only
> supported flavour?

I don't know, I connect to a nfs server which is not maintained by me.
It looks like that. How can I find out?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs