From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add /proc/sys/fs/nfs sysctls to nfsd module
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:36:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154705797.4727.18.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154680981.21040.2415.camel@hole.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 18:43 +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 02:52, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On 8/3/06, Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> wrote:
> > > From: okir@suse.de
> > > Subject: Add /proc/sys/fs/nfs sysctls to nfsd module
> > >
> > > This patch adds the plumbing for adding nfs-specific sysctls to fs/nfs,
> > > and makes the max size of a readdirplus reply tunable.
> > >
> > > The reason for this is that we found that some clients do not seem
> > > to grok readdirplus replies larger than 4K. Rather than reducing the
> > > overall number this sysctl allows admins to work around these clients.
>
> Neat.
Not really. It would be better to identify and fix the buggy clients
that aren't setting the READDIRPLUS maxcount parameter correctly.
Cheers,
Trond
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-04 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 11:05 [PATCH 3/4] Add /proc/sys/fs/nfs sysctls to nfsd module Olaf Kirch
2006-08-03 16:52 ` Chuck Lever
2006-08-03 17:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 17:55 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-04 8:43 ` Greg Banks
2006-08-04 15:36 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-08-04 17:52 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-04 18:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 19:16 ` Peter Staubach
2006-08-04 20:06 ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-07 4:02 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 23:36 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-05 13:15 ` Olaf Kirch
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