On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 23:39 +0530, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi wrote: > then why is it 90 by default ... is it RFC/Protocol requirement ? The purpose of the grace period is to give the clients enough time to notice that the server has rebooted, and to reclaim their existing locks without danger of having somebody else steal the lock from them. It is not a protocol requirement, but it is definitely a strongly recommended feaature if you don't want to see corruption in your mailbox/database/logfile/... that relies on those locks. Trond > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Trond Myklebust > <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 22:55 +0530, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi > > wrote: > >> thankx a lot for the info. > >> > >> btw, if i set nfs4leasetime to ~10 seconds ... is there any negative effect ? > >> > > > > You mean aside from the very likely event that your clients will lose > > all their locks when the server reboots? > > > > Trond > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
