Re: NFS4 crack

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:39:21PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:35:28AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Namespaces issues above was meant as kernel can't assume namespace at
> > > all, not even thinking about multiple namespaces which makes it even
> > > more wrong.  Who sais I allow the kernel to mess with
> > > /var/lib/nfs/v4recover?
> > 
> > It's run-time configurable if you don't like the default.
> > 
> > > Who tells any userspace process is even in the same namespace as the
> > > nfs threads to create the directories?
> > 
> > No userspace process is likely to care, except maybe for debugging
> > purposes.  This isn't a userspace<->kernel interface, it's just a way to
> > store some information on disk so nfsd can find it again on next boot.
> 
> Again,
> 
> FILENAMES ARE POLICY AND HAVE NO BUSINESS IN THE KERNEL

What problem does this create in this case?

The "hardcoded" path is just a default for a value that can be modified
at runtime.  We could default to the empty string, I suppose, and make
sure the path is set in the nfs init scripts.

--b.