Hallo,

we are checking our current CES configuration, and we noticed that by default GPFS puts always Filesystem_Id=666.666 [*], no matter which Export_Id value the export has. To my understanding (which is poor!), this means that all clients will see all our exports (~20) with the same device number, creating various possible issues (e.g. file state handles). Questions:

* is there a reason for such default value? If we change it, are there unpleasant effects we could see?

* what would be a reasonable value? Looking around I saw that Filesystem_Id = Export_Id.Export_Id is quite common, with the possible issue of using the forbidden 152.152 [**]

* what happens if we actually remove the Filesytem_Id parameter from gpfs.ganesha.exports.conf?

* is there a way to modify Filesystem_Id in gpfs.ganesha.exports.conf without editing the file, eg using mmnfs commands (seems not, but I might be mistaken)?

Thanks a lot!

cheers

leo


[*] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.0.4?topic=exports-making-bulk-changes-nfs

[**] https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/issues/615

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