Re: listing knfsd-held locks and opens

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 02:23:10PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 01:12:31PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 12:47 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > We've got a long-standing complaint that tools like lsof, when run on an
> > > NFS server, overlook opens and locks held by NFS clients.
> > > 
> > > The information's all there, it's just a question of how to expose it.
> > > 
> > > Easiest might be a single flat file like /proc/locks, but I've always
> > > hoped we could do something slightly more structured, using a
> > > subdirectory per NFS client.
> > > 
> > > Jeff Layton looked into this several years ago.  I don't remember if
> > > there was some particular issue or if he just got bogged down in VFS
> > > details.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think I had a patch that generated a single flat file for locks, but
> > you wanted to present a directory or file per-client, and I just never
> > got around to reworking the earlier patch.
> 
> Oh, OK, makes sense.

(But, um, if anyone has a good starting point to recommend to me here,
I'm interested.  E.g. another pseudofs that's a good example to follow.)

--b.



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