Re: nfs-utils - TCP ephemeral port exhaustion results in mount failures

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Chris Perl <chris.perl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just submitted two patches, one for nfs-utils and one for linux-nfs.
>
> As I said in my previous email, the patch to nfs-utils was enough to
> get us farther along, but we failed inside mount(2) with EIO (with a
> decidedly more confusing error message).
>
> So, I've also submitted a patch for the rpc code in the kernel that
> also avoids bind when asking for a random ephemeral port.  I've tested
> the combination of these two patches with my system while in the
> situation I originally outlined.  I can continue to successfully mount
> NFS filesystems using both of these patches.
>
> I don't particularly love the kernel patch, as it makes `xs_bind' not
> actually bind in all circumstances, which seems confusing.  However, I
> thought trying to rework things in a larger way would cause more
> issues given that I'm not very familiar with this code.  If everyone
> hates it, I can try something else.

To whom did you submit these patches? I don't see anything in the
linux-nfs mailing list.

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Trond Myklebust

Linux NFS client maintainer, PrimaryData

trond.myklebust@primarydata.com