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From: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
To: Peter Scott <pjscott@jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFSv4 file lock reporting interface request
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 20:50:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALXu0UdHWGOnMYk-xGG6_GWGfdpXffc0U-+Ark0joEYvhPSh_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8dd8a352-aaca-71af-aca7-9be6c7039ff4@jpl.nasa.gov>

Solaris and FreeBSD dtrace facility supports this functionality.
Unfortunately, Linux rejected dtrace for license issues, and instead
did... nothing.

Ced

On 10 July 2018 at 04:28, Peter Scott <pjscott@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hello.  I am with the institutional hosting service at NASA's Jet Propulsion
> Laboratory and we have been trying to find the answer to an apparently
> simple question.
>
> We are running an NFSv4 server on Centos 7 and we need to get the server to
> tell us which files it thinks are locked by which clients.  This is because
> we have observed failure modes where something apparently has a lock
> (because attempting to lock the file again blocks) but we can't find a
> client that has the lock. Finding out what the server believes would be
> critical to troubleshooting this.
>
> We tracked down Trond Myklebust and Neil Brown and conversation suggests
> that this is a function that is (a) not currently available and (b)
> reasonable to ask for.  So this is me suggesting that an interface be
> provided to have knfsd output its list of locked files and clients.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Scott
> Office of the CIO
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Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-02 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10  2:28 NFSv4 file lock reporting interface request Peter Scott
2018-08-02 14:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-08-02 18:50 ` Cedric Blancher [this message]
2018-08-07 20:34   ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-08-07 20:53     ` Scott Mayhew
2018-08-07 21:05     ` Tom Tucker
2018-08-07 21:16       ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-08-15 17:35         ` J. Bruce Fields

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