On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > On 7/14/25 2:30 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Add a mount option to set a clientid, similarly to how it can be > > configured through the per-netfs sysfs file. This allows for easy > > testing of behavior that relies on the client ID likes locks or > > delegations with having to resort to separate VMs or containers. > > The problem with approaches like this is that it becomes difficult > to manage multiple mounts of the same server. Each of those mounts > really cannot have a different clientid. Having different clientids for multiple mounts from the same server is the purpose and only reason for this option. > For testing, why can't you use the per-container clientid setting? Because having to create a container is a lot of effort when all that is needed is just a mount with a different clientid.
