RE: 2 potentially stupid questions.

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RE: nfs-ganesha... Luckily, or unluckily, it's not on the list of supported storage platforms for the product I support. Might be an interesting side project one this one's done. 

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From: Frank Filz <mailto:ffilzlnx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 7:24:35 PM
To: 'J. Bruce Fields'; Brian Cowan
Cc: mailto:linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: 2 potentially stupid questions.
 
Have you added nfs-ganesha to your list of servers?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailto:linux-nfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-nfs-
> mailto:owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J. Bruce Fields
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 3:13 PM
> To: Brian Cowan <mailto:brian.cowan@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: mailto:linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: 2 potentially stupid questions.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 09:09:49PM +0000, Brian Cowan wrote:
> > The "feature implemented only in linux" statement worries me... Does
> > this mean that only Linux's NFS client server implements this NFSv4.1
> > "lock freed" behavior?
> 
> Actually, I shouldn't have said that.  The linux (client and server)
> implementation is the one I know of, but there may well be others.  It's
an
> optional feature of NFSv4.1:
> 
>        https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5661#section-20.11
> 
> If you notice 1-second-ish delays acquiring contended locks against other
> servers then it may be worth filing bugs with them and suggesting they
> support CB_NOTIFY_LOCK.  It shouldn't be especially difficult.

Adding that support to nfs-ganesha is on our todo list...

Frank


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