Re: Error mounting FC8 NFS server with 2.6.31-rc3 NFSv4 client.

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:36 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 07/21/2009 10:12 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 09:49 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >> On 07/21/2009 05:15 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>
> >>> What does /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery look like on the server?
> >> The server was misconfigured, but I still think the client should
> >> behave better in this case.  If you cannot reproduce it, let me know
> >> and I can try to be more specific.  If you still want the v4recovery
> >> information, let me know and I'll send it.
> >
> > So how should the client behave, when a screwed up server allows it to
> > mount but starts returning illegal values for setclientid? The only
> > thing I can see we could do is to tell the user EINSANESERVER...
> 
> Well, it could just fail the mount and give up and not overly spam
> /var/log/messages in a tight loop perhaps?

This doesn't happen at mount time. It happens when you open a file.

Trond

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