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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add /proc/sys/fs/nfs sysctls to nfsd module
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:55:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060804175547.GB29852@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154624881.5774.96.camel@localhost>

> Note, however, that the entire sysctl should be unnecessary. Clients are
> supposed to tell the server how large a reply to return, by means of the
> 'maxcount' argument (see RFC1813). If the clients aren't doing that,
> then they really need to be fixed.

>From a distributor's point of view, waiting for the client vendor to
fix their bugs is often not the best way to go. People buying support
contracts expect a fix, no matter buy whom, they only want it NOW :-)
But I understand if you reject this for upstream.

Olaf
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-04 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-03 11:05 [PATCH 3/4] Add /proc/sys/fs/nfs sysctls to nfsd module Olaf Kirch
2006-08-03 16:52 ` Chuck Lever
2006-08-03 17:08   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 17:55     ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2006-08-04  8:43   ` Greg Banks
2006-08-04 15:36     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 17:52       ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-04 18:23         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 19:16           ` Peter Staubach
2006-08-04 20:06             ` Olaf Kirch
2006-08-07  4:02             ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-04 23:36     ` Neil Brown
2006-08-05 13:15       ` Olaf Kirch

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