[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use utsnamespaces

[Trond Myklebust]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:18 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote:
> Yes, I was aware that the inode might be dirtied by another container. I
> was thinking that, at least in the case of NFS, it makes sense to report
> the node name of the container that did the original mount. Of course
> this doesn't address the general RPC client case and, like patch 3, it
> makes the superblock solution rather NFS-specific. That brings me to a
> basic question: Are there any RPC clients in the kernel that do not
> operate on behalf of NFS?

Yes. There is, for instance, the portmapper/rpcbind client. The NFS and
lockd servers also sometime needs to send RPC callbacks. Assuming that
you can convert the RPC client into something NFS-specific is therefore
not an option.

Trond

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