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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] leases: break read leases on unlink
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:02:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921150241.GA11452@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316617097-21384-4-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:58:14AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> A read lease is used by NFSv4 as a guarantee that a client can perform
> local read opens without informing the server.
> 
> The open operation takes the last component of the pathname as an
> argument, thus is also a lookup operation, and giving the client the
> above guarantee means informing the client before we allow anything that
> would change the set of names pointing to the inode.

That seems like totally strange semantics.  A useful defintion of a
lase operation would mean it guarantees I/O can happen, and wouldn't
care about metadata operation.  That's the whole point in adding a
stateful open to nfs4, isn't it?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 14:58 breaking leases on metadata changes J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] leases: split up generic_setlease into lock/unlock cases J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-22 17:16   ` Mimi Zohar
2011-09-23 18:57     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] leases: fix write-open/read-lease race J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 15:01   ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-22 17:17     ` Mimi Zohar
2011-10-10 21:59   ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-10-11  6:19     ` Need information about the net ads user command Pankaj Baranwal
2011-10-28  8:46     ` [PATCH 2/6] leases: fix write-open/read-lease race J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/6] leases: break read leases on unlink J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 15:02   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-09-21 17:41     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] leases: break read leases on rename J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-22 17:17   ` Mimi Zohar
2011-09-23 16:55     ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-23 18:55       ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-23 19:58       ` Mimi Zohar
2011-09-23 20:13         ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] leases: break leases on any attribute modification J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 15:35   ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-21 14:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] leases: break read leases on link J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-24 18:36 ` breaking leases on metadata changes Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
2011-09-26 14:10   ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-09-26 16:16     ` J. Bruce Fields

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