From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
To: Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:23:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5EBDAA40-4F55-4EF2-956D-9877C4F4A9A7@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7003D8A9-3B95-4B36-84EC-99D4D1806366@oracle.com>
> On Jan 13, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 13, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:59 AM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:09:09AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>> Hi Anna-
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 11, 2021, at 4:41 PM, schumaker.anna@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's possible for an NFS server to go down but come back up with a
>>>>> different IP address. These patches provide a way for administrators to
>>>>> handle this issue by providing a new IP address for xprt sockets to
>>>>> connect to.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a first draft of the code, so any thoughts or suggestions would
>>>>> be greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> One implementation question, one future question.
>>>>
>>>> Would /sys/kernel/net be a little better? or /sys/kernel/sunrpc ?
>>
>> Possibly! I was trying to match /sys/fs/nfs, but I can definitely
>> change this if another location is better.
>
> Ah... since this is a supplement to the mount() interface, maybe
> placing this new API under /sys/fs/nfs/ might make some sense.
Or you could implement it with "-o remount,addr=new-address".
--
Chuck Lever
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-14 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-11 21:41 [RFC PATCH 0/7] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] net: Add a /sys/net directory to sysfs schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] sunrpc: Create a sunrpc directory under /sys/net/ schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] sunrpc: Create a net/ subdirectory in the sunrpc sysfs schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] sunrpc: Create per-rpc_clnt sysfs kobjects schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] sunrpc: Create a per-rpc_clnt file for managing the IP address schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] sunrpc: Prepare xs_connect() for taking NULL tasks schumaker.anna
2021-01-11 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] sunrpc: Connect to a new IP address provided by the user schumaker.anna
2021-01-12 13:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] SUNRPC: Create sysfs files for changing IP Chuck Lever
2021-01-12 16:59 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-01-13 19:23 ` Anna Schumaker
2021-01-13 19:48 ` Chuck Lever
2021-01-13 21:23 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2021-01-14 20:29 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-01-19 15:55 ` Chuck Lever
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