On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:07:35AM +0000, Stanley Wang wrote: > We met some problems about DLM's persistent/orphan lock feature. DLM > does nothing when a user mode lock client that holds persistent locks > exits abnormally. Then the resource master has totally no idea about the > persistent/orphan lock. Hence it's impossible for other clients to know > that this lock is an orphan lock. > Another one is that there is no way to query orphan lock though > dlm_query. A dedicated query command is needed for it. > > Any comments? > Thanks, that looks reasonable. Though I'll add ORPHAN to lkb_flags rather than having a dedicated structure member for it I think. Actually "persistent" was a feature, "orphan" wasn't (as you noticed!). The feature that needed persistent locks didn't need orphans. I'll get this patch applied shortly. -- patrick
