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From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: "Talpey, Thomas" <Thomas.Talpey@netapp.com>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mount.nfs: Update description of clientaddr= in nfs(5)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:56:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D81E14.3000504@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EXNANE01q6DqaJY4kJS00000210@exnane01.hq.netapp.com>

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Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> At 03:48 PM 8/30/2007, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> +However, in the presence of multiple client network interfaces,
>> +special routing policies, or atypical network topologies, the
>> +exact address to use for callbacks may be difficult for the
>> +mount command to determine automatically.
> 
> "Difficult" doesn't actually say what happens. Perhaps:
> 
> ... atypical network topologies, the ...
> "server may not be able to establish a connection to the
> address supplied by the client to use for callbacks. This in turn
> may lead to degraded client NFSv4 operation."

I think detailing the consequences a little is a good idea, so I'll try 
to work this in.

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 19:48 [PATCH] mount.nfs: Update description of clientaddr= in nfs(5) Chuck Lever
2007-08-30 21:37 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-31  0:12 ` Gabriel Barazer
2007-08-31 13:54   ` Chuck Lever
2007-08-31  1:35 ` Talpey, Thomas
2007-08-31 13:56   ` Chuck Lever [this message]
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2007-08-31 15:15 Chuck Lever

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