[Gluster-devel] FUSE 2.7.3?

[Amar S. Tumballi]

Hi Brent,
 Thanks for update. Because we went through that patch, and actually our
posix-readdir() call has that fix already. So, we were wondering what would
be the reason.

Regards,
Amar

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Brent A Nelson <brent at phys.ufl.edu> wrote:

> The unfs3 rm -rf issue occurs with a simple ext3 filesystem (and a ceph
> filesystem, both with Fuse and kernel clients), too, so it's not a GlusterFS
> bug.  I'll see about contacting the Unfs3 author...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brent
>
>
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Brent A Nelson wrote:
>
>  The nfs-kernel-server only seems to have the ESTALE issue with idle
> > clients cd'ed into the GlusterFS.  I have not encountered any other issue
> > with nfs-kernel-server in recent GlusterFS builds.
> >
> > However, the ESTALE issue is a bit of a showstopper, so I also test with
> > Unfs3 user-mode NFS.  It doesn't have the ESTALE issue, but it does have the
> > rm issue (also a showstopper), exactly as described in the discussion thread
> > which led to the FUSE patch.
> >
> > The last version I tested was from the April 3 TLA archive, however.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brent
> >
> > PS There were earlier rm -rf issues which affected both kernel-nfs and
> > Unfs3 that did get fixed, but this one still persists (unless it was fixed
> > after April 3).
> >
> > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Anand Avati wrote:
> >
> >  Brent,
> > > thanks for the pointer. We have been having that (similar/equivalent)
> > > fix
> > > in GlusterFS since a while. And from what I recollect, this change has
> > > made
> > > GlusterFS work fine over nfs-re-export (for solaris clients as well),
> > > and
> > > the issue currently being faced is the ESTALE error when you keep a
> > > shell
> > > idle for a while. Please correct me if otherwise.
> > >
> > > avati
> > >
> > > 2008/4/22 Brent A Nelson <brent at phys.ufl.edu>:
> > >
> > >  Thanks, but it looks like I might as well stick with 2.7.2.  The
> > > > patch is
> > > > actually for their fusexmp_fh.c example file, so the fix actually
> > > > needs to
> > > > be made in all the client codes out there...
> > > >
> > > > On that note, GlusterFS dudes, could you please take a look at the
> > > > small
> > > > patch at:
> > > >
> > > > http://fuse.cvs.sourceforge.net/fuse/fuse/example/fusexmp_fh.c?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&view=patchandadjust the GlusterFS client code, accordingly? This should hopefully
> > > > eliminate the last known glitch with unfs3 reexport, which is that
> > > > rm -rf
> > > > often doesn't work fully.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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