On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:32:17PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:41:54PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:39:45PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: >>> >>>> J. Bruce Fields wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 02:23:40PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I would think that you might want to have nfsd3_proc_getattr() >>>>>> in this list too. Some clients may need to generate a GETATTR >>>>>> if they need the attributes for the root node. >>>>>> >>>>> Do you know of any? rfc 2623 makes it sound like those clients are out >>>>> of luck. And testing confirms that this patch is sufficient for the >>>>> linux client, at least. >>>>> >>>> I believe that the Solaris client may. I think that it may >>>> use the attributes returned from the FSINFO call, if there >>>> are any, to prevent the additional GETATTR, but this should >>>> be tested. It might also be interesting to test out a >>>> readonly failover mount on the Solaris client to see what >>>> behavior that that exhibits. >>>> >>> OK, could be. Volunteers to test that welcomed--for now I think I'll >>> stick to the list in the RFC. >>> >> >> By the way, I don't mean to brush off the idea, it's just that this >> satisfies my immediate problem, and it would be extremely easy for >> someone else to test: >> >> - Apply this patch to a linux nfs server, export a filesystem with >> /export *(sec=krb5) >> - mount -osec=krb5 server:/export from a solaris client. >> - report whether it works, and get a packet capture if not. >> >> ... If someone gets a chance to figure out the Solaris client behavior, >> that'd be great. > > I will try it when I can, but I was thinking of just watching > the traffic generated during the mount. It shouldn't matter > whether the mount is done with krb5 or not, the sequence of > NFS operations should be the same. Sure, yep. Oh, and of course I forgot to mention that test should be with v3.... --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
