From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Linux NFS mailing list <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFS - lock failover
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:36:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111209103646.GA1061@janus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111201172415.GA27626@janus>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:24:16PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 07:07:22PM +0200, Pavel A wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I was trying not to create new topics, but it seems that posting to an
> > old one doesn't bring it up. Here is the original topic I'm referring
> > to: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/13108
> >
> > I'm building an A/A cluster using NFS v3 and local file systems, and
> > looking for
> > efficient ways for failover (for now I have to restart nfs-kernel-server on
> > Takeover node to be able to initiate grace period), so the discussed solutions
> > are very interesting to me.
> >
> > Now (4 years after) in current nfs-utils packages (v. 1.2.2-4 and later) I can
> > see that the ability to release locks was really implemented and is
> > working well
> > (I mean interfaces /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip and
> > /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem),
> > but how about reacquiring locks on the node, share migrates to? - I've been
> > going through various mailing lists and found a lot of discussions on the topic
> > (also dated mainly 2007), but don't seem to find any rpc-based mechanism or
> > interface like /proc/fs/nfsd/nlm_set_grace to do that, was it ever made?
>
> I've posted a patch some time ago implementing
> /proc/fs/nfsd/relock_filesystem:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/42360
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/42361
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/42362
Can this patch be scheduled for inclusion in mainline (3.3)?
--
Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 17:07 NFS - lock failover Pavel A
2011-12-01 17:24 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2011-12-01 17:34 ` Pavel A
2011-12-01 17:36 ` Pavel A
2011-12-09 10:36 ` Frank van Maarseveen [this message]
2011-12-12 19:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-12-12 20:30 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2011-12-12 20:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
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