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From: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16][cr][v3]: C/R file owner, locks, leases
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:16:17 -0400
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On 08/04/2010 03:01 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Steven Whitehouse [swhiteho@redhat.com] wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:11 -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> |>  Checkpoint/restart file owner, file-locks and file-lease information.
> |>
> | Can you explain roughly how this is intended to work, or point me at a
> | document explaining it?
>
> Well, there is no document atm and I tried to explain how it is supposed
> to work in the patches that restart file-locks (patches 4. 9, 16).
>
> |
> | I'm trying to figure out how the file lock checkpoint will work with
> | cluster filesystems, or if there needs to be a mechanism to turn this
> | feature off for those filesystems. What prevents the lock state changing
> | in an incompatible way between the checkpoint and the restore?
>
> But I see that your question is about the bigger picture. Given that
> this question was asked on the previous version of the patchset, I will
> add a FAQ/description in patch 0 next time.
>
> For now, please see:
>
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=127657580718791&w=2
>

Would probably be a good idea to put something on the wiki
and/or inside Documentation/checkpoint/...

Oren