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

[Andy Adamson]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 17:32 -0400, Andy Adamson wrote:
> > nfs4_init_session should simply return if the nfs_client  
> > cl_cons_state
> > is not NFS_CS_SESSION_INITING.
> > I shouldn't be trying to set the session max_resp_sz/max_rqst_sz to
> > the rsize/wsize, but rather to the maximum rsize/wsize supported by
> > the client.
> > If the server accepts or increases the max_resp_sz/max_rqst_sz then
> > all is well.
> > If the server reduces the max_resp_sz/max_rqst_sz, the maximum rsize/
> > wsize available for NFSv4.1 partition mounts to the server needs to  
> > be
> > reduced accordingly. So the nfs_server rsize/wsize needs to be bound
> > by the session max_resp_sz/max_rqst_sz as well as by the maximum
> > supported size.
>
> Well.... The rsize/wsize is one thing, but how about acls? We simply
> don't know how big they may become.

Yeah - has anything been submitted for 4.2 to fix this? (a readdir  
cookie - like thingie)

> An alternative would be to let the server choose the
> max_rqst_sz/max_resp_sz by always requesting the maximum allowed  
> value.

OK  - maximum allowed value instead of maximum client supported value...

> Trond

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