From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org
Subject: Re: NFS clients' use of fs_locations?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:26:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211202634.GA27686@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49932E72.8060209@garzik.org>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:00:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> According to the NFSv4 spec (section 6.1), regarding fs_locations,
>
> On first access of the filesystem, the client should obtain the
> value of the fs_locations attribute. If, in the future, the
> client finds the server unresponsive, the client may attempt to
> use another server specified by fs_locations.
>
> Does any known client actually fail over to another fs_location, as
> described here?
>
> I am implementing the server side of this... AFAICT Linux barely uses
> fs_locations, and Solaris just crashes.
Yeah, Linux only uses fs_locations when it crosses a mountpoint to a new
filesystem and finds that filesystem is only available elsewhere.
Maybe AIX?
--b.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 20:00 NFS clients' use of fs_locations? Jeff Garzik
2009-02-11 20:26 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2009-02-11 21:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-02-11 21:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-02-11 21:53 ` Trond Myklebust
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