> On Jan 13, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:59 AM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:09:09AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: >>>> Hi Anna- >>>> >>>>> On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:41 PM, schumaker.anna@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>> >>>>> From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>> >>>>> It's possible for an NFS server to go down but come back up with a >>>>> different IP address. These patches provide a way for administrators to >>>>> handle this issue by providing a new IP address for xprt sockets to >>>>> connect to. >>>>> >>>>> This is a first draft of the code, so any thoughts or suggestions would >>>>> be greatly appreciated! >>>> >>>> One implementation question, one future question. >>>> >>>> Would /sys/kernel/net be a little better? or /sys/kernel/sunrpc ? >> >> Possibly! I was trying to match /sys/fs/nfs, but I can definitely >> change this if another location is better. > > Ah... since this is a supplement to the mount() interface, maybe > placing this new API under /sys/fs/nfs/ might make some sense. Or you could implement it with "-o remount,addr=new-address". -- Chuck Lever
