Hi folks, Currently there is an infinite loop in the pnfs code when it gets an error on doing COMMIT after doing the IO. Looking at the code filelayout_commit_done_cb() it will translate that into ERR_RESET_TO_MDS and retry. In my test case, MDS and DS are the same. It resends, sends COMMIT and gets EACCES and in the infinite loop it goes. At the connectathon, going against Tigran's server, the retries didn't go to MDS and went to the same DS (let's set the issue of going to the wrong server aside). In a non-pnfs case, when COMMIT gets EACCES it fails and doesn't retry any writing and application gets "Permission denied". Question: why is pnfs retrying to MDS? Is the solution to the looping problem: 1. not retry as in non-pnfs case. 2. detect that DS=MDS and then not retry? Thanks. -- 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
