[NFS] [Linux-cluster] [RFC] NLM lock failover admin interface
Wendy Cheng
wcheng at redhat.com
Mon Jun 12 15:44:55 UTC 2006
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:25:43AM -0400, Wendy Cheng wrote:
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>>2. Adding a new flag into "exportfs" command, say "h", such that
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>> "exportfs -uh *:/export_path"
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>>would un-export the entry and drop the NLM locks associated with the
>>entry.
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>>
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>What does the kernel interface end up looking like in that case?
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Happy to see this new exportfs command gets positive response - it was
our original pick too.
Uploaded is part of a draft version of 2.4 base kernel patch - we're
cleaning up 2.6 patches at this moment. It basically adds a new export
flag (NFSEXP_FOLOCK - note that ex_flags is an int but is currently only
defined up to 16 bits) so nfs-util and kernel can communicate.
The nice thing about this approach is the recovery part - the take-over
server can use the counter part command to export and set grace period
for one particular interface within the same system call.
-- Wendy
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