Bug 591567 - [RFE] Support cluster-wide leases on files in gfs2
Summary: [RFE] Support cluster-wide leases on files in gfs2
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Steve Whitehouse
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 812133
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Reported: 2010-05-12 14:58 UTC by Simo Sorce
Modified: 2014-06-18 08:04 UTC (History)
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Old rhel4 patches to implement cluster-leases (6.43 KB, application/x-gzip)
2010-05-14 23:33 UTC, Abhijith Das
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Description Simo Sorce 2010-05-12 14:58:45 UTC
In order to be able to server files over multiple protocols like SMB(2) / NFSv4, on active/active clusters (using CTDB for example), it is necessary to have support for cluster wide leases so that oplocks/delegations can be granted to clients.

Without gfs2 support you can't correctly grant oplocks/delegations to clients without risking file corruption.

Comment 2 Abhijith Das 2010-05-14 23:33:32 UTC
Created attachment 414191 [details]
Old rhel4 patches to implement cluster-leases

I wrote this patchset for rhel4 gfs way back in 2006. I'm just posting it here so we can borrow ideas from it if necessary. From what I remember about this, there were multiple glocks per inode to be held during open/close and this introduced a fair amount of overhead. We shelved the patchset due to this overhead and also because not many people (except samba) were wanting to use it.


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