[Linux-cluster] GFS lock problem?

[Andrew C. Dingman]

Wouldn't each lock in GFS be used to impliment some sort of
filesystem-level lock, such as an fcntl() or flock(), which would in
turn belong to a process?

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:39 -0500, Michael Conrad Tadpol Tilstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:12:51PM -0500, Andrew C. Dingman wrote:
> > Using GFS 6 on RHEL3, is there any way to determine which locks are held
> > by a particular node, or better yet by a process on that node?
> 
> send a USR1 signal to the LT process, this will dump a snapshot of the
> entire lockspace into /tmp/Gulm_LT_Lock_Dump.LT000.?????? (the ? will be
> random chars.)
>   `gulm_tool getstats localhost:lt000 | grep pid` will tell you the pid
> of the LT000 process.
> 
> There isn't a way to see what processes hold locks because processes
> don't hold locks.  GFS holds locks, not processes.
> 
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