Re: [nfsv4] possible minor corrections of federated-fs-admin-05

[James Lentini <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Chuck Lever wrote:

> Hi James-
> 
> The last paragraph of Chapter 5 section 3 says:
> 
> > If the junction is resolved, the fileserver will indicate the type of resolution that was performed using the FedFsResolveRes's resolve value and include a list of UUIDs for the FSN's FSLs in the FedFsResolveRes's fslUuid array.
> 
> 
> I think that language needs to be updated to reflect what is now 
> returned in the result of FEDFS_LOOKUP_JUNCTION.  Most important is 
> that an array of FedFsFsl structures is returned, not an array of 
> fslUuids.  I don't recall seeing this change in the most recent set 
> of diffs, but my memory could be foggy.

Good catch. I will correct that.
 
> Also, we had previously discussed adding a unique error code to the 
> protocol for "procedure not implemented".  Can that be added in the 
> next draft update?

Yes, I can add a FEDFS_ERR_NOTSUPP.

At the start of Section 5, the specification requires fileservers with 
junctions (internal nodes) to implement all of the procedures. The 
procedures are only optional for fileservers that don't support 
junctions (leaf nodes), so only leaf nodes would be allowed to return 
FEDFS_ERR_NOTSUPP.

Which procedures should be allowed to return FEDFS_ERR_NOTSUPP? All of 
the procedures except FEDFS_NULL?

-james