[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: add barrier/nobarrier mount options

2009-10-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Currently gfs2 issues barrier unconditionally. There are various reasons to disable them, be that just for testing or for stupid devices flushing large battert backed caches. Add a nobarrier option that matches xfs and btrfs for this. Also add a symmetric barrier option to turn it back on at

[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] gfs2: add barrier/nobarrier mount options

2009-10-30 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Thanks for the patch. I've pushed it to the -nmw tree now. I've also added a two-liner of my own to display the nobarrier option in /proc/mounts, Steve. On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 08:03 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Currently gfs2 issues barrier unconditionally. There are various reasons to

[Cluster-devel] SCTP versus OpenAIS/corosync time-outs

2009-10-30 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
Hi all, David, I'm contemplating SCTP versus OpenAIS/corosync. Is dlm_controld(.pcmk) pro-actively informed if a single ring/link goes down, as to trigger faster SCTP recovery - or is it left for SCTP to time out on its own and proceed? If the latter - is there a way to auto-tune the SCTP