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Subject: RE: Enabling/Disabling NFS shares
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:06:40 -0800
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From: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Goldick" <jonathan.goldick@onstor.com>,
	"dl-Customer Service Group" <csgroup@onstor.com>,
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	"Narayan Venkat" <narayan.venkat@onstor.com>,
	"Joshua Goldenhar" <joshua.goldenhar@onstor.com>

Now that we have a volunteer to implement the command, I think it
definitely should stay.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Sharp
>Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:03 PM
>To: Maxim Kozlovsky
>Cc: Jonathan Goldick; dl-Customer Service Group; dl-se; dl-Software;
dl-QA;
>Narayan Venkat; Joshua Goldenhar
>Subject: Re: Enabling/Disabling NFS shares
>
>A separate command for both protocols has many uses outside of bug
>protection.  We should have a command for both, absolutely.  In
>S-X (tm) it will be trivial to implement, so no worries there ~:^)
>
>On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:39:00 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
><maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it was useful when we entered a crash loop because of a bug
in
>> NFS. Disabling a share prevents a client from connecting and crashing
>> the system. Since the occurrences of NFS crash loops became much less
>> frequent, the command lost most of its usefulness.
>>
>> (I think we should preserve it, since when we will go to systemx we
>> are bound to have some crash loops. :-) )
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> From: Jonathan Goldick
>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:34 PM
>> To: dl-Customer Service Group; dl-se; dl-Software; dl-QA
>> Cc: Narayan Venkat; Joshua Goldenhar
>> Subject: Enabling/Disabling NFS shares
>>
>> This question is in the context of SystemX but about the current
>> product.
>>
>> We have a command to enable/disable NFS shares but not one for CIFS
>> shares.  "nfs disable share [all | PATHNAME]"
>>
>> Does anyone ever use these commands given that they do not prevent
>> CIFS users from connecting and CIFS has no equivalent?  I'm trying to
>> determine whether to preserve the functionality in SystemX given the
>> limited value.
>>
>> Unless I hear otherwise, this is going away in SystemX.
>>
