Re: NFS - lock failover

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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
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