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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: rasca-9B074fXSGsOr88ip1nKoZ2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem using exportfs in an active-active nfs cluster
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:04:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100609180439.40e856ac@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C0F4634.8090102-9B074fXSGsOr88ip1nKoZ2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:43:48 +0200
RaSca <rasca-9B074fXSGsOr88ip1nKoZ2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Il giorno Mar 08 Giu 2010 23:54:25 CET, Neil Brown ha scritto:
> [...]
> > Try
> >    exportfs -f
> 
> Already tried, it didn't work. The file system is still locked by nfsd.
> 

Seems unlikely ... "exportfs -f" flushes all the export caches in the kernel
thus letting go of any filesystems.
I guess an active NFS request could still hold the fs active, but that should
complete fairly quickly.
file locking might be an issue.  Might a client have a lock on some file in
the filesystem?  Failover of locks is rather more complicated that simple
file-access fail-over.  I don't recall what the status of this is currently.

When the umount files, check the content of
   /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.export/content
and
   /proc/locks

to check what is actually using the filesystem.

NeilBrown

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 16:24 Problem using exportfs in an active-active nfs cluster RaSca
     [not found] ` <4C0E6ED0.60200-9B074fXSGsOr88ip1nKoZ2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-08 21:54   ` Neil Brown
     [not found]     ` <20100609075425.7ec4ccd9-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-09  7:43       ` RaSca
     [not found]         ` <4C0F4634.8090102-9B074fXSGsOr88ip1nKoZ2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-09  8:01           ` RaSca
2010-06-09  8:01           ` RaSca
2010-06-09  8:04           ` Neil Brown [this message]
2010-06-09 10:28             ` RaSca
2010-06-10  4:09               ` Neil Brown
2010-06-11  8:49                 ` RaSca

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