Re: [PATCH Version 2 2/2] NFSv4.1 Use the MDS nfs_server authflavor for pNFS data server connections

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On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:59 -0400, andros@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> pNFS data servers are not mounted in the normal sense as there is no associated
> nfs_server structure.
> 
> Commit 4edaa308 "NFS: Use "krb5i" to establish NFSv4 state whenever possible"
> uses the nfs_client cl_rpcclient for all state management operations, and
> will use krb5i or auth_sys with no regard to the mount command authflavor
> choice.  For normal mounted servers, the nfs_server client authflavor is used
> for all non-state management operations
> 
> Data servers use the same authflavor as the MDS mount for non-state management
> operations. Note that the MDS has performed any sub-mounts and created an
> nfs_server rpc client. Add an array of struct rpc_clnt to struct
> nfs_client, one for each possible auth flavor for data server RPC connections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx>

Question: do we also need to add support for SECINFO_NO_NAME? IIRC, the
spec says that we do.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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