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Re: [nfsv4] [pnfs] [PATCH 1/1] pnfsd: DLM file layout only support read iomode layouts

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Wed, 16 December 2009 15:37 UTC

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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "William A. (Andy) Adamson" <androsadamson@gmail.com>
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Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>, pnfs@linux-nfs.org, NFSv4 <nfsv4@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [nfsv4] [pnfs] [PATCH 1/1] pnfsd: DLM file layout only support read iomode layouts
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:26:57AM -0500, William A. (Andy) Adamson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> wrote:
> >
> > 15.1.10.4.  NFS4ERR_LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE (Error Code 10059)
> >
> >   Returned when layouts are not available for the current file system
> >   or the particular specified file.
> >
> > NFS4ERR_BADIOMODE seems to make more sense since layouts are available,
> > just not for the requested iomode. However its definition indicates that
> > the iomode in the client request is "invalid or inappropriate".
> > It is not clear what "inappropriate" means in this context.
> 
> What difference does 'what inappropriate means' make to the client?
> None! It's up to the server.

We do have to worry how clients will react to the error:

	- If clients really assume that this error can only result from
	  a bug, then they may choose to return an IO error to the
	  application, turn off pnfs entirely for this server, or
	  something similarly drastic.

	- If they assume it means that the server doesn't feel like
	  giving out a layout of that iomode right now, then we're good.

You're probably right that the latter is a reasonable interpretation of
"inappropriate".

However, the spec isn't entirely explicit about this, and the only
specific example given of BADIOMODE use is an "invalid" case (client
supplying IOMODE4_ANY on getlayout), so I think it would be easy for a
client to get this wrong.

--b.

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