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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: vfs lease api
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:21:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183144890244-git-send-email-bfields@fieldses.org> (raw)

Eventually we want to be able to support NFSv4 delegations for cluster
filesystem exports.  We implement NFSv4 delegations using leases.  So to
make this work, we need leases to be passed down to the filesystem, so
that a cluster filesystem can enforce leases correctly across all nodes.

The following patches do some minor cleanup of the lease code, and then
add a setlease() file method.

For now the only implementations of setlease() we include (for NFS and
GFS2) are used only to turn off leases selectively.  To complete this
work we'll need to implement proper lease support for GFS2 or OCFS2, and
probably do some more work on lease breaking.

But we're requesting this be included in -mm now in the theory that the
lease-disabling behavior is useful now anyway, and in hopes that this
will the required further work.

I'm also keeping this in the "for-mm" branch at:

	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git for-mm 

(And maybe you could also remove the server-cluster-locking-api branch
from your list of git fetches, if it's still there?--I don't intend to
use it any more.)

--b.



             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 19:21 J. Bruce Fields [this message]
     [not found] ` <6e0beaf3e950494a6903571f0b5c9b61fc7bf650.1183143819.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-06-29 19:21   ` [PATCH 1/6] locks: share more common lease code J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]   ` <59343fe9a0b0bdb9c39ed217185b9c0d6c7d8dae.1183143819.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-06-29 19:21     ` [PATCH 2/6] locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-30  9:26     ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <ce5021881e67029f0e3d6f24109cf2953a0edcd1.1183143820.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-06-29 19:21     ` [PATCH 6/6] nfs: disable leases over NFS J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-29 21:16       ` Peter Staubach
2007-06-29 21:39         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-29 22:30           ` Steven Whitehouse
2007-06-29 22:21             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-30  9:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-04 23:22       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-05 15:41       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-11 10:20         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-11 23:10           ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-30  9:20   ` [PATCH 1/6] locks: share more common lease code Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-03 22:17     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-04  8:26       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <dc828b771d2a4b78d59bdbe3c583b81887205cab.1183143820.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-06-29 19:21     ` [PATCH 3/6] locks: rename lease functions to reflect locks.c conventions J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-30  9:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-04 21:42       ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]   ` <b057dca3f8acb125eccdce3a3b84ff04713fea7c.1183143820.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-06-29 19:21     ` [PATCH 4/6] locks: fix locks.c lease symbol exports J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-30  9:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-04 21:42       ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found]   ` <1bdef6b017f0ccb94ed76dbdd2b4cc676e5ef312.1183143820.git.bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-06-29 19:21     ` [PATCH 5/6] gfs2: stop giving out non-cluster-coherent leases J. Bruce Fields
2007-06-30  9:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-01 15:00       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-04 21:48       ` J. Bruce Fields

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