linux-kernel - Re: Error mounting FC8 NFS server with 2.6.31-rc3 NFSv4 client.

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:17:42 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Andy Adamson <andros@...app.com>
Cc:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Error mounting FC8 NFS server with 2.6.31-rc3 NFSv4 client.

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 18:03 -0400, Andy Adamson wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Well.... The rsize/wsize is one thing, but how about acls? We simply
> > don't know how big they may become.
> 
> Yeah - has anything been submitted for 4.2 to fix this? (a readdir  
> cookie - like thingie)

Not really. You pretty much have to set ACLs atomically, or you may end
up with security issues.

The good news is, though, that we should be able to figure out an upper
limit by looking at the max_rqst_sz/max_resp_sz that the server wants to
set.


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