On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 18:21 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 18:03 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > If you want to do this, you probably also want to turn off the previous > > exfslocs.locations check in the same function. Otherwise we claim > > support for the attribute but then never actually return it. > > ...why is that a problem? Clients that conform to RFC3530 are perfectly > capable of dealing with that case. The point is that if you say "I don't > support this attribute", then the client will _never_ be allowed to > check it. Put differently: not setting the fs_locations bit in the supp_attr information is equivalent to telling the client that it shouldn't ask for it, and there is no time limit on that prohibition... -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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
