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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: peter.staubach@emc.com
Cc: bfields@fieldses.org, bjschuma@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Detect loops in a readdir due to bad cookies
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:48:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300906115.11677.58.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E6794FC7B8FCA41A704019BE3C70E8B0693F05F@MX31A.corp.emc.com>

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 14:42 -0400, peter.staubach@emc.com wrote:
> Although I think that it is a good thing to protect the client against broken servers, it does seem like the right solution is to get the server fixed...

Don't get me wrong: I fully agree with that!

The reason for wanting this code is to cut down on the amount of
debugging we have to do in order to detect those broken servers.
Detecting duplicate cookies in a wireshark trace can be very
time-consuming if you are dealing with a 10^6-entry directory.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
www.netapp.com


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23 17:39 [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Detect loops in a readdir due to bad cookies Bryan Schumaker
2011-03-23 18:10 ` peter.staubach
2011-03-23 18:17   ` Trond Myklebust
2011-03-23 18:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-03-23 18:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-03-23 18:34   ` Trond Myklebust
2011-03-23 18:42     ` peter.staubach
2011-03-23 18:48       ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2011-03-23 21:27         ` NeilBrown
2011-03-23 21:36           ` Daniel.Muntz
2011-03-23 21:55             ` NeilBrown
2011-03-23 18:43     ` peter.staubach

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