Re: [PATCH] NFSv4: use unique client identifiers in network namespaces

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On 8 Feb 2022, at 16:47, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 16:37 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>> On 8 Feb 2022, at 15:27, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>> Also, why the exclusion of init_net?
>>
>> Because we're unique enough if we're not in a network namespace, and any
>> additional uniqueness we might need (due to NAT, or cloned VMs) /should/
>> be getting from udev, as you envisioned.  That way, if we are getting
>> uniquified, its from a source that's likely persistent/deterministic.  If
>> we just generate a random uniquifier, its going to be different next boot
>> if there's no udev rule and userspace helpers.  That's going to make
>> things a lot worse for simple setups.
>>
>
> So you're following up with changes to nfs-utils to configure udev?

Yes.

Ben




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