From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: A Question about the 2.4.21 Pathconf patch Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:41:56 -0400 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3EAEC774.20402@RedHat.com> References: <3EAE956E.9080205@RedHat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200] helo=lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19Aa3H-0007XQ-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:42:03 -0700 Received: from RedHat.com (dickson.boston.redhat.com [172.16.65.20]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h3TIfuV08807 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:41:56 -0400 Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello Trond, Trond Myklebust wrote: >Why would we want to succeed in that case? If the server operates with >some screwed up set of parameters that we are incapable of supporting, >surely the best thing to do is to fail immediately? > Very true... I think we are saying the same thing.... Maybe I was not too clear.... >Note: Most of the functionality of NFSPROC3_FSINFO *is* in fact in v2, >but it is either part of NFSPROC_STATFS, or (shudder) has been tacked >onto the mount protocol. > Right... but with the difference being that statfs supplies dynamic information and fsinfo supplies static info. And some the fsinfo info, like readdir sizes, procedures not supported, max reads/writes sizes along with preferred read/write sizes seems like good information to have about the server, although not totally necessary, obviously ;-) So I'm just curious, why (from a protocol purest standpoint) its not being used... and if it ever was used, what were the results... SteveD. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs