Re: EXCHANGE_ID with same network address but different server owner

["bfields@fieldses.org" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 03:17:11PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> For the case that Stefan is discussing (kvm) it would literally be a
> single process that is being migrated. For lxc and docker/kubernetes-
> style containers, it would be a collection of processes.
> 
> The mountpoints used by these containers are often owned by the host;
> they are typically set up before starting the containerised processes.
> Furthermore, there is typically no "start container" system call that
> we can use to identify which set of processes (or cgroups) are
> containerised, and should share a clientid.

Is that such a hard problem?

In any case, from the protocol point of view these all sound like client
implementation details.

The only problem I see with multiple client ID's is that you'd like to
keep their delegations from conflicting with each other so they can
share cache.

But, maybe I'm missing something else.

--b.