Re: read(2) hangs on the client side

[Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no>]

Trond,

> Why didn't you try the NFSv3 RFC? 8-)
> 
>    NFS3ERR_JUKEBOX
>        The server initiated the request, but was not able to
>        complete it in a timely fashion. The client should wait
>        and then try the request with a new RPC transaction ID.
>        For example, this error should be returned from a server
>        that supports hierarchical storage and receives a request
>        to process a file that has been migrated. In this case,
>        the server should start the immigration process and
>        respond to client with this error.
> 
> In other words, this is an error used by the server to say "I'm busy,
> and cannot retrieve the data you want. Please try again later".
> 
> Are you absolutely sure that you managed to disable oplocks on the samba
> server? 'cos this is the error an NFS server will usually return when it
> is waiting for the samba server (or an NFSv4 server) to break the lease
> on a file so that it can be opened.

I did set 'kernel oplocks = no' globally and restarted Samba, but I
didn't look for locked files with smbstatus.  I'll try again and
investigate a little more this time.  In the meantime, here's what
smbstatus shows:

Locked files:
Pid    DenyMode   Access   R/W     Oplock           Name
--------------------------------------------------------
32475  DENY_NONE  0x20089  RDONLY  EXCLUSIVE+BATCH foo Sun May 15 08:13:23 2005

This lock goes on and off all the time, which probably explains why
this error doesn't happen every single time I try to open the file.
But why does ERR_JUKEBOX cause the client to hang?  This lock _is_
soon released, so shouldn't NFS wake up once that happens?

-- 
 Haakon


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