[pnfs] Howdy from Texas

Iyer, Rahul Rahul.Iyer at netapp.com
Fri May 11 16:07:56 EDT 2007


 

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> From: William Brown [mailto:wilbrown at us.ibm.com] 
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> To: Iyer, Rahul
> Cc: William A. (Andy) Adamson; pnfs at linux-nfs.org
> Subject: RE: [pnfs] Howdy from Texas
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> We're bring a client and server, and hope to test out the 
> sessions code for each, as well as the changes to the 
> protocol which are a result of sessions (such as sequence id 
> and client id arguemnts being 0, no release_lockowner, no 
> open confirms, etc).
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> In our current implementation, our server will make callbacks 
> to the client if the client used the new EXCHANGE_ID 
> operation (a minor version 1 only operation). If the client 
> used SET_CLIENTID (minor version 0), the callback will be 
> made on a separate connection as specified in the setclientid 
> arguments. If this is not how other implementations 
> understand how it should be, please let me know.
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Cool! This is how our client/server pair's coded too. We look forward to
testing against you guys.
Regards
Rahul


 
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> Hi Will,
> I'm mildly confused. Are you bringing a client or a server? 
> Nother thing, apart from the CLAIM_FH thing I'd watch out for 
> is that we currently do callbacks on the same channel as the 
> forechannel (from the client at least). Hope this won't be a problem.
> Thanks
> Regards
> Rahul
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> > From: William A. (Andy) Adamson [mailto:andros at citi.umich.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:48 AM
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> > On 5/11/07, William Brown <wilbrown at us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> > It will be good to see you.
> > My goal is test our sessions code and iron out as many 
> inter-op issuse 
> > that come up as we can, and if I could ask a couple of quick 
> > questions, it might save me a lot of time when the bakeoff starts...
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> > 1. Will you require gss authentication for callbacks?
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> > nope.
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> > 2. Do you ever destroy a client id?
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> > yep, we have not changed our expire client id on lease expiration 
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> > 3. Are you using the new CLAIM_FH open_claim_type4 in your 
> client for 
> > open calls? If so, how are you encoding the arguemnts over 
> the wire - 
> > just omitting the name string? The nfsv41.x file doesn't 
> seem to know 
> > about it other than to define the constant. The spec itself doesn't 
> > seem to mention it. I'd hate to show up and not have anyone 
> be able to 
> > open a file against my server.
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> > i haven't looked at this yet - we're still getting sessions
> > 101 working. but! we have a month.....
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> > i will show up with sessions python tests. 
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> > we're sticking with draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-10 even though 
> > there may be some updates prior to the bakeathon.
> > how's about you? 
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> > -->Andy
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> > Hi Bill
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> > Yes, I'll be at the June bakeoff - the lone CITI participant!
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> > -->Andy
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> > On 5/11/07, William Brown < wilbrown at us.ibm.com 
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> > Hope you're are doing well.
> > Quick question - are any of yall going to the June bakeoff 
> in Austin?
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> > Thanks,
> > Bill
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