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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:40:45AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> File handles suddenly change and lock state vanishes after a live
> migration event, both of which would be catastrophic for hypervisor
> mount points.

They're talking about a Ganesha/Ceph backend.  It should be able to
preserve filehandles.

Lock migration will require server-side implementation work but not
protocol changes that I'm aware of.

It could be a lot of implementation work, though.

--b.