From: Janne Karhunen <Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: MrUmunhum@popdial.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mounting NFS root FS
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:05:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612042205.57577.Janne.Karhunen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165256490.711.233.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
On Monday 04 December 2006 20:21, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > 2) NFS provides persistent storage.
> >
> > To me this sounds like a chicken and an egg problem. It
> > both depends and provides this at the same time :/. But
> > hey, if it's supposed to work then OK.
>
> ??? Locking depends on persistent storage, but persistent storage never
> depended on locking.
Except for the fact that to be able to mount anything RW you
generally _want_ to have locks. And can't have locks without
the mount. Not that it wouldn't work, it's just that I would
not do it [for obvious reasons].
> 2) No. The problem of client crashes was fixed in NFSv4 with the
> addition of lease-based locks.
This was NFSv3 system, so that would still be an issue.
--
// Janne
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 19:03 William Estrada
2006-12-02 19:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 21:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-02 21:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-02 22:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-03 2:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-03 6:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-03 7:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-03 8:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-03 11:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-03 16:59 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-04 11:51 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 15:29 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-04 17:12 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 18:21 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-04 20:05 ` Janne Karhunen [this message]
2006-12-04 21:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 0:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-04 20:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-04 20:27 ` Janne Karhunen
2006-12-04 20:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 18:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-05 19:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 19:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-05 20:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-27 14:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-07 22:27 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
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