Hi Brent, Thanks for update. Because we went through that patch, and actually our posix-readdir() call has that fix already. So, we were wondering what would be the reason. Regards, Amar On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Brent A Nelson <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The unfs3 rm -rf issue occurs with a simple ext3 filesystem (and a ceph > filesystem, both with Fuse and kernel clients), too, so it's not a GlusterFS > bug. I'll see about contacting the Unfs3 author... > > Thanks, > > Brent > > > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Brent A Nelson wrote: > > The nfs-kernel-server only seems to have the ESTALE issue with idle > > clients cd'ed into the GlusterFS. I have not encountered any other issue > > with nfs-kernel-server in recent GlusterFS builds. > > > > However, the ESTALE issue is a bit of a showstopper, so I also test with > > Unfs3 user-mode NFS. It doesn't have the ESTALE issue, but it does have the > > rm issue (also a showstopper), exactly as described in the discussion thread > > which led to the FUSE patch. > > > > The last version I tested was from the April 3 TLA archive, however. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brent > > > > PS There were earlier rm -rf issues which affected both kernel-nfs and > > Unfs3 that did get fixed, but this one still persists (unless it was fixed > > after April 3). > > > > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Anand Avati wrote: > > > > Brent, > > > thanks for the pointer. We have been having that (similar/equivalent) > > > fix > > > in GlusterFS since a while. And from what I recollect, this change has > > > made > > > GlusterFS work fine over nfs-re-export (for solaris clients as well), > > > and > > > the issue currently being faced is the ESTALE error when you keep a > > > shell > > > idle for a while. Please correct me if otherwise. > > > > > > avati > > > > > > 2008/4/22 Brent A Nelson <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > Thanks, but it looks like I might as well stick with 2.7.2. The > > > > patch is > > > > actually for their fusexmp_fh.c example file, so the fix actually > > > > needs to > > > > be made in all the client codes out there... > > > > > > > > On that note, GlusterFS dudes, could you please take a look at the > > > > small > > > > patch at: > > > > > > > > http://fuse.cvs.sourceforge.net/fuse/fuse/example/fusexmp_fh.c?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&view=patchandadjust the GlusterFS client code, accordingly? This should hopefully > > > > eliminate the last known glitch with unfs3 reexport, which is that > > > > rm -rf > > > > often doesn't work fully. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
