Last call for nfs-utils patches

Timo Aaltonen tjaalton at cc.hut.fi
Sat Mar 8 13:12:01 EST 2008


On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Steve Dickson wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm planning on cutting a nfs-utils-1.1.2 release since
>> there has been a number commits since the last 1.1.1 release.
>>
>> The attached list are all of the commits that have been made to
>> the git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils git tree.
>>
>> (Note: to get a working copy of this tree use:
>>    git clone  git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils nfs-utils)
>>
>> So if you don't see a commit you have posted to either
>> the nfs or nfsv4 mailing list it probably means I missed it
>> so you might want to bring it to my attention.
>> (Please Note, the patch authors in some of my earlier
>> commit are incorrect. This was simply due to my lack
>> of git knowledge. Once it was pointed it out to me,
>> the problem was corrected.)
>>
>> Also if you were holding off posting some (hopefully)
>> non-intrusive patches now it the time. There is a very
>> good chance I will not cut the release until this weekend.
>
> Here's another patch (by Niall Sheridan) that needs approval:
>
> - - -
>
> rpc.gssd FD_ALLOC_BLOCK too low
>
> The max number of sec=krb5 mounts that rpc.gssd will handle is hardcoded
> at 32. From utils/gssd/gssd.h:
> #define FD_ALLOC_BLOCK 32
>
> This causes problems and errors like:
>  RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out.
> when the number of kerberized nfs mounts approaches the hard limit.
>
> Since linux supports a maximum of 256 nfs mounts, perhaps this number can
> be upped to 200 or so.
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11961434/nfs-utils-fd-alloc-block.debdiff
>
> - - -
>
> what say you?

Oops, should've checked the git first.. this is fixed by commit 
d15fa02fe38f6f1c9183540810ac7bfeac0c7c17

:)

t


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