Re: [nfsv4] FedFS Meeting Minutes, 10/22/2009

[James Lentini <jlentini at netapp.com>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> Speaking of errors, the server should try to resolve FSNs immediately
> upon junction creation, 

That seems like a reasonable thing to recommend.

> and there should be a procedure for getting a list of FSNs/FSLs that 
> have been unresolvable "lately", as well as FSN/FSL resolution error 
> counts/stats.  The recent error list/stats part seems particularly 
> useful: there must be a way to diagnose such failures, and without a 
> protocol for it the diagnostic procedures will be vendor-specific.

Good idea. What should a stat operation return? It seems that the 
total # of installed junctions, their FSNs, their locations, and the 
number of successful + failed resolutions for each would be useful.

-james