Re: Error mounting FC8 NFS server with 2.6.31-rc3 NFSv4 client.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 07/21/2009 10:12 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 09:49 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 07/21/2009 05:15 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>
>>> What does /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery look like on the server?
>> The server was misconfigured, but I still think the client should
>> behave better in this case.  If you cannot reproduce it, let me know
>> and I can try to be more specific.  If you still want the v4recovery
>> information, let me know and I'll send it.
>
> So how should the client behave, when a screwed up server allows it to
> mount but starts returning illegal values for setclientid? The only
> thing I can see we could do is to tell the user EINSANESERVER...

Well, it could just fail the mount and give up and not overly spam
/var/log/messages in a tight loop perhaps?

> Now, we _should_ fix the wretched NFS server so that it doesn't do NFSv4
> mounts when there is no configured root partition. We _should_ also fix
> the damned thing so that it doesn't return illegal values.

Sounds fine to me.

Thanks,
Ben


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