On 11/1/21 11:40, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 11:30:48AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
Hey!
On 10/29/21 15:14, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 01:30:36PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
On 10/29/21 12:40, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
Let's just stick with that for now, and leave it off by default until
we're sure it's mature enough. Let's not introduce new configuration to
work around problems that we haven't really analyzed yet.
How is this going to find problems? At least with the export option
it is documented
That sounds fixable. We need documentation of module parameters anyway.
Yeah I just took I don't see any documentation of module
parameters anywhere for any of the modules. But by documentation
I meant having the feature in the exports(5) manpage.
I think I'd probably create a new page for sysctls (this isn't the only
one needing documentation), and make sure it's listed in the "SEE ALSO"
section of the other man pages.
and it more if a stick you toe in the pool verses
jumping in...
If we want more fine-grained control, I'm not yet seeing the argument
that an export option on the destination server side is the way to do
it.
Let's document the module parameter and go with that for now.
Now that cp will use copy_file_range() when available,
what are the steps needed to enable these fast copies?
1) Make sure client and both servers support NFSv4.2 and
server-to-server copy.
Something is already figuring this out... The only time
the client sends a COPY_NOTIFY and COPY is when both
mounts are 4.2. I have not looked into but that is what
the network traces are showing.
2) Make sure destination server can access (at least for read) any
exports on the source that you want to be able to copy from.
How can one server know what the other server has exported
or access to??
3) echo 1 >/sys/module/nfsd/parameters/inter_copy_offload_enable on the
destination server.
Who would be doing this? Plus this would not survive over a reboot.
An export would as well a /etc/modprobe.d/ file.
I can see the admin setting up the export but I really
don't see the admin doing the echo or creating the file
esp since the neither would is documented.
steved.
