[Gluster-devel] Adding ALUA support for Gluster-Block

[Susant Palai]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:22 PM Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:54:28PM +0530, Susant Palai wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    For ALUA in Gluster-Block, we need fencing support from GlusterFS.
> This
> > is targeted mainly to avoid corruption issues during fail-over from
> > INITIATOR.
> >
> > You can find the problem statement, design document at [1] and the GitHub
> > discussions at [2].
> >
> > Requesting your feedback on the same.
>
> From a quick glance, this looks very much like leases/delegations that
> have been added for Samba and NFS-Ganesha. Can you explain why using
> that is not sufficient?
>
Niels, is it that you are suggesting leases/delegations already solves the
problem we are trying to solve mentioned in the design document or just the
mandatory lock part?

>
> Thanks,
> Niels
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Susant/Amar/Shyam/Prasanna/Xiubo
> >
> >
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1up5egL9SxmVKFpZMUEuuYML6xS2mNmBGzyZbMaw1fl0/edit?usp=sharing
> > [2]
> >
> https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/issues/53#issuecomment-432924044
>
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