Thank you very much! This is something I was looking for. I only wonder, why isn't it included in packages? - I will be of great help to many other people as well. 2011/12/1 Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 07:07:22PM +0200, Pavel A wrote: >> Hi everyone! >> >> I was trying not to create new topics, but it seems that posting to an >> old one doesn't bring it up. Here is the original topic I'm referring >> to: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/13108 >> >> I'm building an A/A cluster using NFS v3 and local file systems, and >> looking for >> efficient ways for failover (for now I have to restart nfs-kernel-server on >> Takeover node to be able to initiate grace period), so the discussed solutions >> are very interesting to me. >> >> Now (4 years after) in current nfs-utils packages (v. 1.2.2-4 and later) I can >> see that the ability to release locks was really implemented and is >> working well >> (I mean interfaces /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_ip and >> /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem), >> but how about reacquiring locks on the node, share migrates to? - I've been >> going through various mailing lists and found a lot of discussions on the topic >> (also dated mainly 2007), but don't seem to find any rpc-based mechanism or >> interface like /proc/fs/nfsd/nlm_set_grace to do that, was it ever made? > > I've posted a patch some time ago implementing > /proc/fs/nfsd/relock_filesystem: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/42360 > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/42361 > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/42362 > > -- > Frank -- 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