[Gluster-devel] distributed locking

[Krishna Srinivas]

Székelyi,

Can you please check if it works now?

"iemorgan" had reported a similar problem on symlink on IRC, that is
fixed too (similar fix)

Thanks
Krishna

On Dec 5, 2007 10:45 PM, Krishna Srinivas <krishna at zresearch.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 9:54 PM, Székelyi Szabolcs <cc at avaxio.hu> wrote:
> > Krishna Srinivas wrote:
> > > As a temporary workaround can you make all the clients use the same afr
> > > translator and see if it works? i.e in client spec you need to specify the
> > > same server for all the clients (instead of localhost) and afr should be on
> > > the server side.
> >
> > It works this way, however a workaround is not required, since this is
> > not a production environment; I can wait until you find and fix the
> > problem (if there's any).
> >
> > Thanks for the advice anyway.
> >
> > I'm thinking that it seems the problem arises only with multiple
> > posix-locks instances. Which is not a surprise in itself, because to do
> > proper locking this way, the locking information between each instance
> > should be synchronized at any and all times, which cannot be guaranteed
> > if AFRs ask them for locking in different orders. But if the orders are
> > the same, there should be no problem.
> >
> > Is that correct? Just to make sure I'm not bothering you with some very
> > dumb thing...
>
> That is correct.
>