Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable the setting of a kernel module parameter from nfs.conf

[Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>]

On Tue, 2021-04-20 at 13:18 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 02:31:58PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > I think the important thing is, as Chuck said, that the setting of
> > the
> > uniquifier has to be automated. There are too many instances out
> > there
> > of people who get confused because they are using a default
> > hostname,
> > such as 'localhost.localdomain' and are setting no uniquifier.
> > 
> > So the point is that it needs to be persisted by an automated
> > script if
> > unset.
> > 
> > While that script could use nfsconf to get/set the persisted
> > uniquifier, the worry is that such an automated change might be
> > made
> > while the user is performing some other edit of nfs.conf. What
> > happens
> > then?
> 
> The one thing I'm a little uneasy about is ignoring /etc/machine-id.
> Seems like distros *should* be creating it for us.  And it would be
> convenient to have one source of machine identity rather than
> separate
> ones for different subsystems.
> 
> Maybe we could use that if it exists, and fall back on generating our
> own only if it doesn't?
> 
> (Well, where "use it" actually means take a hash of it, as explained
> in
> machine-id(5).)
> 

Maybe, but that ties the nfs-utils package irrevocably to systemd.

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com