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From: Aleksandr Guzovskiy <Aleksandr.Guzovskiy@Sun.COM>
To: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org
Subject: [Lustre-devel] SOM questions
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:51:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B44BFA4.3070603@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <078f01ca8e31$22ff9f80$68fede80$@com>

Eric Barton wrote:
> Vitaly,
> 
> 1. Clients must replay opens on the MDS if "done writing" is still
>    pending to notify the new MDS that this file is volatile.  Does it
>    matter whether the client already sent "close" to the previous MDS
>    instance?  Does it have to send "close" again?
> 
> 2. I assume "done writing" is only sent after stripe updates have been
>    committed, not just executed so that cached SOM attributes are not
>    dependent on the client still being around to participate in
>    recovery if an OST fails.  Is this correct?

And this has the interaction with async data commit feature I brought up 
  during SC09 meetings i.e. client can't assume anymore OST IO is 
synchronous.

-Alex

> 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-06 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 18:01 [Lustre-devel] SOM questions Eric Barton
2010-01-06 16:51 ` Aleksandr Guzovskiy [this message]
2010-01-11 14:10 ` Vitaly Fertman
2010-01-11 15:47   ` Alex Zhuravlev
2010-01-11 16:44     ` Alex Zhuravlev
2010-01-11 21:59     ` Vitaly Fertman
2010-01-12  3:42       ` Alex Zhuravlev

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