On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 02:04 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > Implementations are only relevant here in as far as they limit the > protocol changes that RFC3530bis can make. Given that there are clients > out there that assume a strict interpretation of RFC3530, then it is too > late to have RFC3530bis relax that interpretation. To put it differently: if you disagree, then please point to the text in RFC3530, or RFC5661 (or RFC3530bis at this point) that supports your position that Mandatory/REQUIRED attributes such as "filehandle" may be ignored by a server in READDIR requests. -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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