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Re: [Gluster-devel] glusterfs file locking
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kane |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] glusterfs file locking |
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Thu, 5 Dec 2013 10:18:00 +0800 |
Hi Vijay
Thanks for help, this is what I want. I’ll look the current code with
lvm snapshot,
and keep watching this issue, then I can collaborate to make the implementation
more modules.
Thanks
Kane
在 2013年12月4日,上午1:47,Vijay Bellur <address@hidden> 写道:
> On 12/03/2013 10:02 AM, kane wrote:
>> Hi Raghavendra,
>>
>> What I want to do is to take volume snapshots with btrfs, so I need the
>> volume locked.
>> When snapshot is taking, all handles(IO, gluster cli) except snap hung on.
>>
>> As I know, the xlator lock does not lock the whole volume bricks, but only a
>> range of a file in bricks.
>>
>> Any good advice?
>
> It does look like you are looking for a mechanism to quiesce/stall all
> updates on the volume. There are a few options that can be considered:
>
> 1. Explore the possibility of using features/quiesce translator in to block
> all I/O.
>
> 2. Consider re-using the barrier framework being developed for glusterfs
> volume snapshots [1]. Early code is available at [2] and you can follow the
> development there.
>
> 3. The glusterfs volume snapshot implementation is currently coupled with
> lvm. One of the goals is to make the snapshotting technology pluggable so
> that we can also leverage btrfs for snapshots. If you are interested, we can
> collaborate to make the implementation more modular.
>
> -Vijay
>
> [1] https://forge.gluster.org/snapshot/pages/Home
>
> [2] http://review.gluster.org/#/q/project:glusterfs-snapshot,n,z
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kane
>>
>> 在 2013年12月3日,下午12:06,Raghavendra Gowdappa <address@hidden> 写道:
>>
>>> Hi Kane,
>>>
>>> You don't have to add the xlator explicitly through cli. The xlator is
>>> configured by default on bricks when you create a volume.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Raghavendra.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "kane" <address@hidden>
>>>> To: address@hidden
>>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 8:41:30 AM
>>>> Subject: [Gluster-devel] glusterfs file locking
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Rohit:
>>>>
>>>> I have googled the issue you mailed last year as below:
>>>> ======
>>>> Does Gluster provide POSIX compatible file locking transparently with
>>>> multiple clients simultaneously trying to lock files on a Gluster share
>>>> with the native Gluster client?
>>>>
>>>> A lot of the code in our application framework relies on file locking for
>>>> synchronization. I was running across some errors, and wanted to rule out
>>>> file locking issues – hence this question.
>>>>
>>>> The gluster documentation mentions a features/posix-locks translator that
>>>> should be used for distributed file level locking. This translator can be
>>>> added using the config files as shown in the example at
>>>>
>>>> http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Translators/features/locks.
>>>>
>>>> However, this method of using config files doesn't seem to be available in
>>>> newer versions of Gluster, and I couldn't find an equivalent way of using
>>>> this translator using the command line. Can someone confirm if I need to
>>>> use this translator, and how I could enable it with Gluster 3.3?
>>>> ======
>>>>
>>>> so as I meet this file locking usage in 3.3 too, I want to ask you what did
>>>> you
>>>> deal with the lock issue at last, did the xlator lock useful?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Kane
>>>>
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