On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:29:36PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote: > OK. This is the first time I've seen this tcpdump. > > The problem seems like a split-brain issue on the server... On the one > hand, it is happily telling us that our lease is OK when we RENEW. Then > when we try to use said lease in an OPEN, it is replying with > STALE_CLIENTID. > > IOW: This isn't a problem I can fix on the client whether or not I add > exponential backoff. The problem needs to be addressed on the server by > the Solaris folks.... Is there any simple thing we could do on the client to reduce the impact of these sorts of loops? Given that we know there are bad servers out there it might be nice to do if it's not complicated. (Though as a server implementer my purely selfish impulse is to leave things as they are since it ensures I'll get bug reports if I screw up....) --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
