Please check inline. On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Xavier Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm looking at the locks xlator and I see that it has something called > reserve locks. I remember long time ago that someone said this was defined > for some purpose, but I don't remember and currently I'm unable to identify > any place in the code where these locks are really used. > > I think it cannot be used from the user side through FUSE, maybe through > gfapi it could be used. > > Not FUSE, Nor gfapi. This was added for supporting AFR's lock healing long back. > Only calls coming from the user can use it > So the questions are: > > * Why are they needed ? > "git show af18c636c44b1ea56296850e55afe0e4b2ce845c" helped to understand the reason behind bring it in. > * Are they being used for something ? > This helped in opening and preserving the locks after healing a file which was open and had locks. Specially used in case of replace-brick type of operation. > * Can they be removed ? > Current AFR maintainers should confirm about it as I haven't seen code in last 4yrs. > > Thank you very much, > > Xavi > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > -- Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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