Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon writes:
>
>:>    NFS uses the kernel 'boottime' structure to generate its version id.
>:>    Now normally you might believe that this structure, once set, will
>:>    never change.  The authors of NFS certainly make that assumption!
>:
>:Is this another case of "lets assume the time of day is a random number" or
>:is there any underlying assumption about time in this ?
>:
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>:Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
>:[EMAIL PROTECTED]               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
>
>    It basically needs to be a unique for each server reboot in order
>    to allow clients to resynchronize.

Ok, then I suggest that you cache a copy of the boottime in the NFS
code for this purpose.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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