Re: [PATCH 0/9] sunrpc: Start making sunrpc work in containers

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:23:55PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I would like to prepare the sunrpc layer for working in a containerized
> environments. The ultimate goal is to make both nfs client and server
> work in containers. Hopefully you won't object :)

Neat, thanks.

> Not to look like an idle talker I've prepared this set which makes the
> /proc/net/rpc appear in net namespaces and made the ip_map_cache be per-net.
> 
> I do not have any plans about when this patches appear at Linus tree and
> thus do not know which git tree to hack on. That said I prepared the patches
> against the net-next tree (I have some custom netns debugging code in it
> and don't want to port it around in vain).
> 
> Looking forward to your feedback.

What are you thinking of as a use-case for this?

I think it would be useful to able to run what appear to be multiple NFS
servers on a single host; and for that, we would want to vary more than
just the ip_map_cache.  The export-related caches (nfsd.fh and
nfsd.export), at least.

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