Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:07:15 -0600 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: exec request-key within the requesting task's init namespace |
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 05:33:25PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>> The case of nfsd state-recovery might be similar but you'll need to help >> me out a bit with that too. > > Each network namespace can have its own virtual nfs server. Servers can > be started and stopped independently per network namespace. We decide > which server should handle an incoming rpc by looking at the network > namespace associated with the socket that it arrived over. > > A server is started by the rpc.nfsd command writing a value into a magic > file somewhere.
nit. Unless I am completely turned around that file is on the nfsd filesystem, that lives in fs/nfsd/nfs.c.
So I bevelive this really is a case of figuring out what we want the semantics to be for mount and propogating the information down from mount to where we call the user mode helpers.
Eric
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