On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:42 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 01:36 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > The problem is that if the client doesn't have a machine cred, then you
> > end up taking a random user credential that may not currently be holding
> > any OPEN files. In that case too the RENEW will fail.
>
> So if i'm understanding this right:
>
> Sachin's proposal fails when the machine has no machine creds.
>
> The current implementation fails when the logged-in user's credentials
> are expired.
>
> Can the NFS client's logic test for those different cases, use the
> appropriate creds for RENEW in their difference, and reduce the failure
> case to their intersection?
Simpler solution: add the call to get machine creds to the existing
get_renew_creds function.
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer
NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com
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