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List:       net-snmp-coders
Subject:    Re: hrStorage looses track of remounted file system (bug #1689551)
From:       Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-11 14:29:56
Message-ID: 20100111142956.GA4887 () libre ! l ! ngdn ! org
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> LC> File systems would be marked ACTIVE and INACTIVE but never removed
> LC> from the container, to ensure that the index values are persistent
> LC> and always monotonically increased.
> 
> LC> Unfortunately this idea is a bit too intrusive and I'm afraid there's
> LC> a good chance of breaking something on the way. As I don't have
> LC> experience with the net-snmp code, I was wondering if I'm missing
> LC> something and if anyone sees an easier way to fix the problem
> LC> described in the bug.
> 
> That's probably the only real choice and is similar (I think) to what's
> happening now for interfaces.  It's the only way to keep track of
> consistent indexing.
> 
> LC> Also, while reading the code, I found that almost the same concept
> LC> that I described above is being implemented in mibgroup/hardware/fsys
> LC> (HAL implementation of FileSystem information), which seems to be work
> LC> in progress and not yet plugged in the build. Anyone has plans to
> LC> resume the work started here? I mean, it was not finished due to lack
> LC> of time and other priorities or the idea was abandoned due to
> LC> technical issues?
> 
> Dave Shield was working on that; You might ask him for his status of it.

Wes, thanks for the reply.

Dave, I'm interested in using a part of your work on the new filesystem
MIB to fix the problem described in this bug. To avoid reinventing the
wheel, do you think you can send me the definition of struct
netsnmp_fsys_info?

Thanks,
Leonardo

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