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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: "bfields@fieldses.org" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Cc: "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"bfields@redhat.com" <bfields@redhat.com>,
	"chuck.lever@oracle.com" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Handling NFSv3 I/O errors in knfsd
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:51:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed2a86da204cbf644ef2dada4bda2b899da48764.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828134839.GA26492@fieldses.org>

On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 09:48 -0400, bfields@fieldses.org wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 03:15:35PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > I'm open to other suggestions, but I'm having trouble finding one that
> > can scale correctly (i.e. not require per-client tracking), prevent
> > silent corruption (by causing clients to miss errors), while not
> > relying on optional features that may not be implemented by all NFSv3
> > clients (e.g. per-file write verifiers are not implemented by *BSD).
> > 
> > That said, it seems to me that to do nothing should not be an option,
> > as that would imply tolerating silent corruption of file data.
> 
> So should we increment the boot verifier every time we discover an error
> on an asynchronous write?
> 

I think so. Otherwise, only one client will ever see that error.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-28 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-26 16:50 [PATCH 0/3] Handling NFSv3 I/O errors in knfsd Trond Myklebust
2019-08-26 16:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] nfsd: nfsd_file cache entries should be per net namespace Trond Myklebust
2019-08-26 16:50   ` [PATCH 2/3] nfsd: Support the server resetting the boot verifier Trond Myklebust
2019-08-26 16:50     ` [PATCH 3/3] nfsd: Don't garbage collect files that might contain write errors Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27  7:58     ` [PATCH 2/3] nfsd: Support the server resetting the boot verifier kbuild test robot
2019-08-26 20:51 ` [PATCH 0/3] Handling NFSv3 I/O errors in knfsd J. Bruce Fields
2019-08-26 21:02   ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27  0:48     ` bfields
2019-08-27  0:56       ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27  1:13         ` bfields
2019-08-27  1:28           ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27 13:59     ` Chuck Lever
2019-08-27 14:53       ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27 14:58         ` bfields
2019-08-27 14:59           ` bfields
2019-08-27 15:15             ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27 15:20               ` Chuck Lever
2019-08-28 13:48               ` bfields
2019-08-28 13:51                 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2019-08-28 13:57                   ` Chuck Lever
2019-08-28 14:00                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-08-28 14:03                       ` Chuck Lever
2019-08-28 14:16                         ` Jeff Layton
2019-08-28 14:21                           ` Chuck Lever
2019-08-28 14:40                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2019-08-28 14:48                             ` Bruce Fields
2019-08-28 14:50                               ` Chuck Lever
2019-08-28 17:07                                 ` Bruce Fields
2019-08-28 15:09                             ` Jeff Layton
2019-08-28 15:12                             ` Rick Macklem
2019-08-28 15:37                               ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-28 15:46                               ` Bruce Fields
2019-08-27 14:54       ` Bruce Fields
2019-08-27 14:59         ` Trond Myklebust
2019-08-27 15:00           ` bfields
2019-08-27 15:17       ` Jeff Layton

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