Re: [PATCH 0/1] Enable inter server to server copies on a export

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 12:22:15PM -0700, dai.ngo@oracle.com wrote:
> 
> On 11/1/21 12:02 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 11/1/21 11:40, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 11:30:48AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >>>Now that cp will use copy_file_range() when available,
> >>>what are the steps needed to enable these fast copies?
> >>
> >>1) Make sure client and both servers support NFSv4.2 and
> >>server-to-server copy.
> >Something is already figuring this out... The only time
> >the client sends a COPY_NOTIFY and COPY is when both
> >mounts are 4.2. I have not looked into but that is what
> >the network traces are showing.

Right.  I was thinking what I'd tell an admin who wanted to set up
server-to-server copy.  The first thing they'd need to do was check that
their clients and servers were new enough.

> >>2) Make sure destination server can access (at least for read) any
> >>exports on the source that you want to be able to copy from.
> >How can one server know what the other server has exported
> >or access to??

And the second is to make sure that the destination server is able to
read from the source.

> >>3) echo 1 >/sys/module/nfsd/parameters/inter_copy_offload_enable on the
> >>destination server.
> >Who would be doing this? Plus this would not survive over a reboot.
> >An export would as well a /etc/modprobe.d/ file.
> 
> You can add a line in /etc/modprobe.d/nfsd.conf:
> 
> options nfsd inter_copy_offload_enable=Y
> 
> to enable the option.

Yep, it would be better to document it that way, thanks.

--b.