[pnfs] [PATCH 0/2] Update seqid and stateid handling to draft 13

[William A. (Andy) Adamson]

On 9/13/07, Iyer, Rahul <Rahul.Iyer at netapp.com> wrote:
>
> The state id handling patch should probably go in. As mentioned in
> section 8.2.2, line 8072, the client can use either a 0 stateid seqid or
> a specific one.
>
>   8072     When stateids are sent to the server by the client, it has
> two
>   8073     choices with regard to the seqid sent.  It may set the seqid
> to zero
>   8074     to indicate to the server that it wishes the most up-to-date
> seqid
>   8075     for that stateid's "other" field to be used.  This would be
> the
>   8076     common choice in the case of stateid sent with a READ or
> WRITE
>   8077     operation.  It also may set a non-zero value in which case
> the server
>   8078     checks if that seqid is the correct one.  In that case the
> server is
>   8079     required to return NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID if the seqid is lower
> than the
>   8080     most current value and NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID if the seqid is
> greater
>   8081     than the most current value.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rahul


yes - you are correct, the stateid patch should go in - my mistake!

-->Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> > From: William A. (Andy) Adamson [mailto:andros at citi.umich.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:12 PM
> > To: Sager, Mike
> > Cc: pnfs at linux-nfs.org
> > Subject: Re: [pnfs] [PATCH 0/2] Update seqid and stateid
> > handling to draft 13
> >
> > As I just emailed the list,
> > draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-13.txt does not change this
> > behaviour from draft-ietf-nfsv4-minorversion1-10.txt. See the
> > "Vestigial Locking Infrastructure from V4" sections of both drafts.
> >
> > So, these patches will not be applied at this time...
> >
> >
> > -->Andy
> >
> >
> > On 9/12/07, Sager, Mike < Mike.Sager at netapp.com
> > <mailto:Mike.Sager at netapp.com> > wrote:
> >
> >       Two patches to bring seqid and stateid handling
> > up-to-date.  The first basically updates the server to ignore
> > the seqid.  The second deals with the stateid's seqid
> > (generation number).
> >
> >       Mike
> >
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