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

[Ben Greear]

On 07/21/2009 10:59 AM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 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.

Not for me, and evidently not for the other person that reported
similar results.  All I had to do was attempt the mount (which never
completed).

Thanks,
Ben

> Trond


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