setclientid: string in use by client

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:56:31PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The message just means that a client that rebooted has tried to
> re-establish the same clientid as last time, but using a different
> credential.

I'd be curious how that's happening.  I don't know why a client would be
routinely changing credential on reboot.

> Normally, the client in question should be able to work around this by
> changing its clientid. Unless you are seeing a case where the clients
> are actually unable to open files etc, this message can, and should be
> ignored.
> 
> Bruce, could you please convert that to a dprintk()? There is absolutely
> no reason to be printing out these "error messages" in stable kernels
> unless there are known bugs that need to be identified and fixed.

OK, the patch is on my list for the next merge window.  I'll change the
clientid to an ip address too; that seems more likely to be useful for
debugging in most cases.

--b.