From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:05:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20070607170557.GA14463@fieldses.org> References: <1181086828.6108.11.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, David Teigland , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Marc Eshel , Trond Myklebust To: Robert Rappaport Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLR2-0007Jz-QO for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:06:08 -0700 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214] helo=fieldses.org) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1HwLR4-0003at-JF for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:06:11 -0700 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:43:51AM -0400, Robert Rappaport wrote: > My interpretation of the preceeding is that there is agreement that > the functionality currently implemented in __setlease() should be > exported, even though the exported name may not be __setlease(). Is > this correct? Yes. > If so, that is just fine with me. OK, good. I'll revise and post a new series. (Do people prefer another mailbomb or a git url?) > The question that I have now is when do you think it likely that these > changes get into the released code? I hope that the plan is to get it > there fairly soon. It would seem reasonable to me to put off the question of how to do proper distributed lease-breaking for now, in which case the remaining patches seem straightforward enough to me that they could go in now. My main question is whether the partial disabling of leases looks to the GFS2 people like reasonable behavior. --b. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs