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Date:   Tue, 2 Feb 2021 21:24:17 +0200
From:   Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
To:     Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP
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On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:52:10PM -0500, Anna Schumaker wrote:
> You're welcome! I'll try to remember to CC him on future versions
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 1:51 PM Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > I want to ensure Dan is aware of this work. Thanks for posting, Anna!

Thanks Anna and Chuck. I'm accessing and monitoring the mailing list via
NNTP and I'm also on #linux-nfs for chatting (da-x).

I see srcaddr was already discussed, so the patches I'm planning to send
next will be based on the latest version of your patchset and concern
multipath.

What I'm going for is the following:

- Expose transports that are reachable from xprtmultipath. Each in its
  own sub-directory, with an interface and status representation similar
  to the top directory.
- A way to add/remove transports.
- Inspiration for coding this is various other things in the kernel that
  use configfs, perhaps it can be used here too.

Also, what do you think would be a straightforward way for a userspace
program to find what sunrpc client id serves a mountpoint? If we add an
ioctl for the mountdir AFAIK it would be the first one that the NFS
client supports, so I wonder if there's a better interface that can work
for that.

-- 
Dan Aloni