[Cluster-devel] Re: [NFS] [PATCH 3/4 Revised] NLM - kernel lockd-statd changes
Wendy Cheng
wcheng at redhat.com
Fri Apr 13 19:31:03 UTC 2007
Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:50:04PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>
>> lockd knows which is which either based on the destination network
>> address of the lock request, or the filesystem on which the lock was
>> taken. Somehow this information needs to get communicated to statd
>> so that different 'sm' directories can be used. my_name seems a
>> sensible place to put the information.
>>
>
> Right. Using the inbound-destination address instead of fsid or file
> system will ensure the right address is used for sending the SM_NOTIFY
> requests. However, fsid, or export path - on a service with more than
> one network address will not, I think...
>
So I think we conclude here that inbound-destination address is required
for SM_NOTIFY purpose.
Thanks for all the comments. Will summarize the issues on Monday and see
what we should go from there.
-- Wendy
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