[pnfs] linux-pnfs-2.6-latest file layout data server sessionmanagement

[William A. (Andy) Adamson]

On 10/16/07, Iyer, Rahul <Rahul.Iyer at netapp.com> wrote:
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> Comments inline...
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> > Questions
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> > 1) should we plan for multiple sessions to a data server?
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> Why would we do multiple sessions? I can understand multiple connections
> over the same session...


no particular reason that i could think of, which is why i asked....

> 2) we could create a new struct to hold only exchange id and
> > client id bookeeping.
> > this would mean changing the interface to
> > nfs4_proc_exchange_id, and to nfs4_state_recovery_ops. not worth it?
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> Yes and no. For the short term, in the interest of getting stuff up to
> speed asap so that everyone can develop on the new client, I think using
> an nfs_client struct per data server is the way to go. In the long term
> however, I do believe we should use something more consise. nfs_client
> has way too much unnecessary information to be used for a DS
> representation.


yes, that was my take.


-->Andy

-Rahul
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