[Gluster-devel] Fwd: Change in glusterfs[master]: nlm: use virtual ip of server to connect to client
Vijay Bellur
vbellur at redhat.com
Tue Dec 18 15:02:48 UTC 2012
On 12/18/2012 07:23 PM, Rajesh Amaravathi wrote:
> Most probably, yes. We will need to test out the actual scenario to confirm it.
> This change makes sure we connect to NLM clients using the virtual IP, so if the
> problems are only with NLM, and virtual IP's, it should work now.
>
> Regards,
> Rajesh Amaravathi,
> Software Engineer, GlusterFS
> RedHat Inc.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Mark Walker" <johnmark at redhat.com>
>> To: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:47:42 PM
>> Subject: [Gluster-devel] Fwd: Change in glusterfs[master]: nlm: use virtual ip of server to connect to client
>>
>> Question: does this change how Glusterfs can be utilized in a
>> virtualized context, including with VMware? My understanding was
>> that the virtual IP handling in VMware had previously presented
>> problems.
>>
Do we have more details on this problem? This problem manifests only if
a virtual IP is used for mounting a NFS volume and a blocking fcntl lock
is invoked from an application on the mount.
The plan is to include this fix in both 3.3.2 and 3.4.0.
Thanks,
Vijay
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