Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> writes: > We're running 2.6.32 (Debian squeeze) NFS4 server and clients. The > server boots and runs purely from SAN, so we can start it on different > computers. In case of such "hardware failovers" I'd expect the clients > to quickly reclaim their locks (if any) and thus the server to abort > it's 90-second grace period early. However, this does not happen, > ruining our HA like, totally. > > So, the questions: is the functionality of aborting the grace period > early missing from version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel? If yes, is it > present in any kernel version? If it should work, could someone offer > some advice on debugging it? If it isn't supported, what's the > best practice of providing highly available NFSv4 today? Hi, Could somebody please share any related wisdom? Pretty please? In short, how to fight grace period in a HA NFS4 setup? Decreasing it (of course after cutting the lock lease time) seems a rather big hammer, I'd like to avoid using it if reasonably possible. -- Thanks, Feri. -- 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
