Re: [RFC nfs-utils PATCH] nfsdcltrack: cluster mode

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:11:57AM -0400, Scott Mayhew wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 04:46:12PM -0500, Scott Mayhew wrote:
> > > 3. During nfsdcltrack's startup, we stat the etab file.  If the inode
> > >    number is different than what we have in the db, then we know that
> > >    the exportfs program has modified the file.  We read in the exported
> > >    path names and compare them to what we have stored in the exports
> > >    table.  If any new exports has been added, we merge the client
> > >    records from db's on those exports into the clients table of the
> > >    local db.  Then we update the exports table in the local db.
> > 
> > How does the merging work?  What happens when some of the clients from
> > an export's .nfsdcltrack/ database are the same as known clients?
> 
> The known clients are left as-is.  That's what the 'OR IGNORE' in the
> INSERT statement in the merge function is for (the id is the primary
> key of the clients table -- the 'OR IGNORE' tells sqlite what to do in
> the event that it were to violate that constraint).

I wonder about the other fields--the merged entry should probably have
the latest of the times on the two entries, and it should probably be a
sign of a problem if has_session doesn't agree, I think?

--b.
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