Re: [Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH 2/4] GFS2: Make block reservations more persistent

2014-10-21 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On 20/10/14 17:37, Bob Peterson wrote: Before this patch, whenever a struct file (opened to allow writes) was closed, the multi-block reservation structure associated with the inode was deleted. That's a problem, especially when there are multiple writers. Applications that do

[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH 2/4] GFS2: Make block reservations more persistent

2014-10-20 Thread Bob Peterson
Before this patch, whenever a struct file (opened to allow writes) was closed, the multi-block reservation structure associated with the inode was deleted. That's a problem, especially when there are multiple writers. Applications that do open-write-close will suffer from greater levels of