[NFS] [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 0/4 Revised] NLM - lock failover

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Fri Apr 27 14:17:10 UTC 2007


On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:42:48AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Ok, I'll toss cleaning that patch up and reposting it on to my to-do list...
> 
> Wendy, it seems like you had some objection to this patch at the time, but
> the nature of it escapes me. Do you recall what your concern with it was?

I like the idea of the patch.  Intead of writing a dev_t into procfs
it should probably be changed to write a path to a new file in the
nfsctl filesystem.   In fact couldn't this be treated as a reexport
with a NFSEXP_ flag meaning drop all locks to avoid creating new
interfaces?




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