From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
To: Chakri n <chakriin5@gmail.com>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)?
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:24:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190391881.6680.73.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92cbf19b0709210920p3647788dl11d8c4e0cee1f70f@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:20 -0700, Chakri n wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I was using flock (BSD locking) and I think the problem should be
> solved if I move my application to use POSIX locks.
Yup.
> And any option to avoid processes waiting indefinitely to free pages
> from NFS requests waiting on unresponsive NFS server?
The only solution I know of is to use soft mounts, but that brings
another set of problems:
1. most applications don't know how to recover safely from an EIO
error.
2. You lose data.
Cheers
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-21 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-21 0:22 Chakri n
2007-09-21 0:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-21 3:12 ` Chakri n
2007-09-21 12:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-21 14:13 ` [NFS] " Trond Myklebust
2007-09-21 16:20 ` Chakri n
2007-09-21 16:24 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2007-09-21 18:06 ` Chakri n
2007-09-21 18:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-22 6:28 ` Chakri n
2007-10-06 7:35 ` Pavel Machek
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