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Jeremy_Robst
15 years ago

CFS, NFS and locking oddities

Hi, I have a 2 node Solaris 10 cluster running SF5.0 MP3, with cluster mounted, cluster rw volumes (CFS). The volumes are exported via NFS to a mixture of Linux and Solaris (9/10) clients. Since con...
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    DavidNoy
    15 years ago

    We plan to release full NFS locking support when shared out of multiple CFS nodes as part of the 5.1 release end of this year.
    Until then, you cannot gaurantee that during failure you will not be exposed to potential locking issues.
    Therefore I recommend waiting 5 wks or so and picking up our release which resolves these issues.

    We had planned  to support NFS lock coordination in a CFS cluster for Sol 10 and onwards. Sol 9 was deemed
    unsupportable but I dont know exactly why except maybe that Sol 10 has the right hooks in it so that we are aware
    cluster-wide of lock status.

    If you need NFS lock coordination earlier than Dec 2009, please contact me.

    If you need NFS lock coordination on Sol 9, please contact me.

    Thanks.

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DavidNoy
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15 years ago

We plan to release full NFS locking support when shared out of multiple CFS nodes as part of the 5.1 release end of this year.
Until then, you cannot gaurantee that during failure you will not be exposed to potential locking issues.
Therefore I recommend waiting 5 wks or so and picking up our release which resolves these issues.

We had planned  to support NFS lock coordination in a CFS cluster for Sol 10 and onwards. Sol 9 was deemed
unsupportable but I dont know exactly why except maybe that Sol 10 has the right hooks in it so that we are aware
cluster-wide of lock status.

If you need NFS lock coordination earlier than Dec 2009, please contact me.

If you need NFS lock coordination on Sol 9, please contact me.

Thanks.