On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:38:53 -0400 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client > from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and > replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to > convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC > client. > > We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with > rpc_pipefs. > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> I'm happy to see this problem get resolved. Much of this functionality however is already provided by the keys API. While it's more geared toward dealing with auth tokens, it's still a fairly decent generic upcall implementation and could easily have been used here with a lot less new code added. Why did you decide to roll your own implementation instead? -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
