On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 08:40:28AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > This is a respin of the set with the same title that I sent on Monday > (Oct 1st). This one has a few bugfixes, and adds some code to allow the > upcall program to convert from the legacy database to the new one. I'll > also be posting a respin of the companion nfs-utils set too. > > The idea here is to allow a one-way conversion from the legacy clientid > tracking code to the new one, which should allow for seamless kernel and > nfs-utils upgrades. > > In order to handle that, this set also changes the heuristic that the > kernel uses to decide what client tracker to use. We now must now try > the usermodehelper upcall first and only fall back to other schemes if > its initialization fails. > > Note that I'm not 100% sold on the idea to convert from the legacy db > format. It's doable but somewhat "fiddly" to handle. There are probably > corner cases where it will fall down, so it may be best not to even try > to do that. I won't be offended if you decide not to take the last > patch. > > Comments? Discuss! So that's take 3 at reboot recovery. Take 1 is what people actually use (despite it being ugly), take 2 nobody's using yet--so it could probably be ripped out fairly quickly. I don't see anything objectionable on a quick skim. I'd rather wait a little longer and consider it for the next merge window. --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
