Re: nfsd, rmtab, failover, and stale filehandles

[Garrick Staples <garrick@usc.edu>]

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I just wanted to mention that failover has been rock solid with those two
patches.  Thank you very much for your help!

Does the patch below look ok?


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:34:15PM -0700, Garrick Staples alleged:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:38:12PM -0700, Garrick Staples alleged:
> > But now I've just noticed something else that is odd.  Something that I'm
> > surprised I haven't come across before...  I have to unexport filesystems
> > twice before I can unmount them.
> 
> I'm looking at exportfs.c to see if I can add in a call to flush the caching
> when unmounting, does the following seem reasonable?
> 
> Force a cache flush if unexporting, and don't reread rmtab if we're using the
> new cache.
> 
> --- exportfs.c_orig     2004-05-07 15:32:22.423905760 -0700
> +++ exportfs.c  2004-05-07 15:33:33.669998637 -0700
> @@ -127,10 +127,13 @@
>                  */
>                 if (!f_reexport)
>                         xtab_export_read();
> -               if (!f_export)
> +               if (!f_export) {
> +                       force_flush=1;
>                         for (i = optind ; i < argc ; i++)
>                                 unexportfs(argv[i], f_verbose);
> -               rmtab_read();
> +               }
> +               if (!new_cache)
> +                       rmtab_read();
>         }
>         if (!new_cache) {
>                 xtab_mount_read();
> 
> 
> -- 
> Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
> University of Southern California



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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California

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