From: Mike Kupfer Subject: Re: [NFS] Re: Non-blocking lock requests during the grace period Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:23:58 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200211201823.gAKINwqG113699@athyra.eng.sun.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no Return-path: To: Juan Gomez In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:06:11 PST." List-ID: >>>>> "Juan" == Juan Gomez writes: Juan> However, I feel it is odd to block a client for about one Juan> minutre when it issues "non-blocking" lock requests. But if the server goes down, the call can end up blocking for significantly longer than one minute anyway. Juan> I have seen that Solaris code does so but still feels odd Juan> and it may conflict with what most programmers expect Perhaps, but there are other expectations to keep in mind. In particular, when using NFS, the expectation (at least with hard mounts) is that when the server goes down, the application will simply wait until the server comes back. Your change would conflict with that expectation. Mike Kupfer mike.kupfer@sun.com Solaris File Sharing Speaking for myself, not for Sun.