On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:37:37PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote: > Bruce, > > As I mentioned in a reply to Trond, > "nfsd41: support for 3-word long attribute bitmask" > changes the server fattr encoding logic so it may send > back a bitmap of length 1, even if the client sent a > bitmap of length 2, if the second word of the bitmap > is zero. Although I think this a valid implementation > and other servers may do the same, it seems sub-optimal > for the client's decoding of acl of fs_locations. "suboptimal" means it does some extra memcpy'ing? > It's pretty easy to revert to the old behavior on the server > by always returning at least two bitmap words, or, if we > keep the bitmap length, not just the val, in nfsd4_decode_bitmap > we can return a bitmap of the same length in the reply. Odd thing to have to do, but OK. --b. > > Let me know what you think... > > Other than that, > git://linux-nfs.org/~bhalevy/linux-pnfs.git nfsd41-for-2.6.30 > holds version 3 of the nfsd41 patchset, rebased onto your > update for-2.6.30 branch, and with these cleanup patches squashed-in: > > [PATCH 1/3] SQUASHME: get callback minorversion from fore channel's > [PATCH 2/3] SQUASHME: nfsd41: use nfsd4_cb_sequence for callback minorversion > [PATCH 3/3] SQUASHME: Revert "sunrpc: add cl_private field to struct rpc_clnt" > > Benny > _______________________________________________ > pNFS mailing list > pNFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-nfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pnfs -- 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
