[18390] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : afs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Oct 11 02:58:20 2000
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:58:09 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200010110658.CAA22714@multics.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18389] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| I believe this is completly unsupported by Transarc, and I'm nearly
| positive it is the cause of your problem.
No objection.
| This would be very difficult to fix because of the state the
| fileserver keeps about the client.
Err, I believe this is incorrect. All that needs to happen is that the
client needs to be aware when its address changes, and forget about
any state it expects the server to have for it, and re-instantiate it.
Yes, that means the server has dangling state for the old client.
But that's what happens when you reboot, anyhow.
Obviously it'd be slightly better for the client to tear-down the
server state for the old address once the change happens, and while
that's probably feasable, it's probably not worth the effort.
(This is not intended as an objection, merely a clarification of
the problem.)
--jhawk
