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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:02:41 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: Enabling/Disabling NFS shares
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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.
> 
