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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nfsv4@linux-nfs.org
Subject: NFS clients' use of fs_locations?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:00:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49932E72.8060209@garzik.org> (raw)

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.

	Jeff



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             reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 20:00 Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-02-11 20:26 ` NFS clients' use of fs_locations? J. Bruce Fields
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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