Re: On setting a lease across a cluster

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:55:36PM -0500, david m. richter wrote:
> 	fwiw, i've done some work on extending the lease subsystem to help 
> support the full range of requirements for NFSv4 file and directory 
> delegations (e.g., breaking a lease when unlinking a file) and we ended up 
> actually doing most of what you've just suggested here, which i take to be 
> a good sign.

As long as it's great minds thinking alike and not fools seldom
differing ;-)

> 	most of my refactoring came out of trying to simplify locking and 
> avoid holding locks too long (rather than specifically focusing on 
> cluster-oriented stuff, but the goals dovetail) and your work on getting 
> the BKL out of locks.c entirely is something i really like and look 
> forward to.

Excellent.  Shall I make the patch myself, or did you want to post a
patch based on working code?  ;-)

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