> On Feb 17, 2016, at 3:59 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 02:06:35PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Adamson, Andy
>>> <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks for testing. As Trond
>>> pointed out, the correct way to indicate multiple hostnames is on
>>> the mount command line
>>>
>>> mount -o minorversion=1 host1,host2,…,hostn:/<export> /<mntdir>
>>
>> It might be more natural for NFSv4.x to use a referral or a pNFS
>> layout instead. Do you think that's a viable approach?
>
> Seems like an easy application for fs_locations{_info?}. It'd need
> server support too, and I think you probably want this manual method as
> well for now.
I agree that the manual method is useful as it allows the client admin to decide if the mount requires session trunking.
The fs_locations would need to be requested by the client. I guess we reqest them at every mount….
>
> I wonder if the server can easily generate a list of IP addresses to
> advertise automatically?
Yes - fs_locations!
—>Andy
> In which case the whole thing would be
> zero-configuration, which would be nice.
>
> pNFS sounds like overkill.
>
> --b.
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