On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:15:05AM -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > On 14 Feb 2018, at 2:06, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > >Hi Ben, > > > >I take this as a "no serious problems by now". Good to hear. > >Which kernel are you using? > > This was years ago on a 2.6.32 series. I don't expect you'll have > serious problems now, either. As far as I know, my last employer is > still using that architecture, but I couldn't tell you what software > versions they're on now.. > > We moved to the knfsd-in-a-container from an architecture that was > essentially a bunch of vanilla knfsds that could mount and any of > the block devices, and block devices were tied to IP addresses, and > this was all orchestrated by pacemaker. The problem with that one > was that when a block device or filesystem was migrated, the server > receiving that filesystem had to be put into grace, which disrupted > any existing NFS serving that was going on. > > Test things, let us know how it works! I think you were using KVM, right, Ben? Harald is talking about LXC, and there are still a few problems there. Jeff, do you object to going back to our plan B for reboot recovery (the daemon)? The usermode helper containerization seems stalled and I have to admit I'm probably not going to take it on myself. That might be the only knfsd-in-a-container obstacle left. --b. -- 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
