Re: [PATCH] Don't hang user processes if Kerberos ticket for nfs4mount expires

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi,

While I'm not expert in this area, my impression had been that the established
practice was that used with AFS, i.e., run jobs under a process capable of renewing
kerberos tickets, e.g., kstart (http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/).

Matt

----- "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The previous situation was also a recipe for disaster, and was often
> cited as a primary reason why people didn't want to deploy kerberized
> NFS. Having everything fall down and go boom when your ticket expires
> is not desirable either.
> 
> I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree on this point. That said,
> I'm
> open to sane suggestions however that don't regress the behavior for
> those users who need to be able to cope with expired tickets.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

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