From: Ragnar =?iso-8859-15?Q?Kj=F8rstad?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] STATD - SM_NOTIFY have wrong ID_NAME on multihost servers. Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:25:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20041124232530.GL19342@vestdata.no> References: <41A39D57.8060902@RedHat.com> <20041123232636.GE19342@vestdata.no> <41A3D9CC.7040404@RedHat.com> <20041124020017.GH19342@vestdata.no> <41A477C8.4060405@RedHat.com> <20041124173525.GI19342@vestdata.no> <41A5064B.1030009@RedHat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CX6W3-0003oH-F5 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:25:39 -0800 Received: from [217.149.127.10] (helo=stine.vestdata.no) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41) id 1CX6W2-0006fR-A0 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:25:39 -0800 To: Steve Dickson In-Reply-To: <41A5064B.1030009@RedHat.com> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:08:11PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > Ragnar Kj=F8rstad wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 07:00:08AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: > >>No, since the spec says a the id_mon needs to be character string.... > > > >"10.0.0.1" is a character string as much as any - unless the > >specification says something more about this? > > Well here is what the spec says wrt to mon_names: > "For maximum portability and interworking, it is recommended that=20 > applications > and users define host names containing only the characters of the Porta= ble > Filename Characters defined in ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990." >=20 > So doing some like would probably cause interopability issues with othe= r > OSes.... Well, I don't have the ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 easily available, but I have a hard time imagining a standard for Portable Filename Characters that don't include number and '.'. However, if it's possible that it will create compabilityproblems, you're probably right - it's not worth the effort. After all, it only matters if you have inconsistencies in your name-resolution system.=20 > >In short, this is exactly like what your patch does except that: > >- if there are multiple matching interfaces (e.g. aliases) we > > send messages for all > > Yes see your point, but is aliasing all that common in non-HA environme= nts? I don't have any statistics on that, but I don't think it's totally unheard of :) > The relatively simple patch I'm proposing is a small step in the right= =20 > direction which would make statd work correctly on multihome servers. Yes, I think it is. > Should we strive to make statd more HA friendly, YES! but I would > suggest one step at time.... Meaning we should propose this match to Ne= il > for inclusion in upstream and then build on it... imho... I have no problem with that. I had just hoped I could trick you into fixing one more thing once you were on a roll :-) --=20 Ragnar Kj=F8rstad Software Engineer Scali - http://www.scali.com High Performance Clustering ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs