Re: [PATCH 3/4 Revised] NLM - kernel lockd-statd changes

[Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>]

Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:50:04PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>   
>> lockd knows which is which either based on the destination network
>> address of the lock request, or the filesystem on which the lock was
>> taken.   Somehow this information needs to get communicated to statd
>> so that different 'sm' directories can be used.  my_name seems a
>> sensible place to put the information.
>>     
>
> Right.  Using the inbound-destination address instead of fsid or file
> system will ensure the right address is used for sending the SM_NOTIFY
> requests.  However, fsid, or export path - on a service with more than
> one network address will not, I think...
>   

So I think we conclude here that inbound-destination address is required 
for SM_NOTIFY purpose.

Thanks for all the comments. Will summarize the issues on Monday and see 
what we should go from there.

-- Wendy

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