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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Andrew W Elble <aweits@rit.edu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, tibbs@math.uh.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Deal with lost delegations and EKEYEXPIRED
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:55:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160615205542.GG3848@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d1niw6pl.fsf@discipline.rit.edu>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 04:13:58PM -0400, Andrew W Elble wrote:
> 
> > (Also: remind me what they symptoms ("lost delegation problems")
> > actually were from the point of view of users?  Does the client end up
> > resending failing DELEGRETURNS and failing to make progress?)
> 
> Client endlessly loops in state recovery with no path to recovery.
> I'm guessing Jason is seeing some of this as well.

OK.  Just added a note at the end of the changelog saying "Without this,
Linux clients with credentials that expired while holding
delegations were getting stuck in an endless loop."--in hopes that might
help somebody recognize their problem.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-15 16:52 [PATCH v3 0/3] Deal with lost delegations and EKEYEXPIRED Andrew Elble
2016-06-15 16:52 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] nfs/nfsd: Move useful bitfield ops to a commonly accessible place Andrew Elble
2016-06-15 16:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] nfsd: allow mach_creds_match to be used more broadly Andrew Elble
2016-06-15 16:52 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] nfsd: implement machine credential support for some operations Andrew Elble
2016-06-15 19:21 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Deal with lost delegations and EKEYEXPIRED J. Bruce Fields
2016-06-15 19:24   ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-06-15 20:13     ` Andrew W Elble
2016-06-15 20:55       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2016-06-15 19:36   ` Andrew W Elble
2016-06-15 20:55     ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-06-16 11:49 ` Jeff Layton
2016-06-16 13:27   ` J. Bruce Fields

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