On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:44:09 +0300 Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/11/2012 04:32 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > On 06/11/2012 03:39 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > >>> > >>> But I'm guessing we were wrong to assume that existing setups that > >>> people perceived as working would have that path, because the failures > >>> in the absence of that path were probably less obvious. > >>> > > > One more thing, the most important one. We have already fixed that in the > past and I was hoping the lesson was learned. Apparently it was not, and > we are doomed to do this mistake for ever!! > > What ever crap fails times out and crashes, in the recovery code, we don't > give a dam. It should never affect any Server-client communication. > > When the grace periods ends the clients gates opens period. *Any* error > return from state recovery code must be carefully ignored and normal > operations resumed. At most on error, we move into a mode where any > recovery request from client is accepted, since we don't have any better > data to verify it. > > Please comb recovery code to make sure any catastrophe is safely ignored. > We already did that before and it used to work. > That's not the case, and hasn't ever been AFAICT. The code has changed a bit recently, but the existing behavior in this regard was preserved. >From nfs4_check_open_reclaim: return nfsd4_client_record_check(clp) ? nfserr_reclaim_bad : nfs_ok; ...if there is no client record, then the reclaim request fails. Doesn't the RFC mandate that? -- 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