Re: [PATCH 3/4] NFS: avoid deadlocks with loop-back mounted NFS filesystems.

2014-09-16 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:39:39 -0400 Anna Schumaker wrote: > On 09/16/2014 01:31 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > > Support for loop-back mounted NFS filesystems is useful when NFS is > > used to access shared storage in a high-availability cluster. > > > > If the node running the NFS server fails, some othe

Re: [PATCH 3/4] NFS: avoid deadlocks with loop-back mounted NFS filesystems.

2014-09-16 Thread Anna Schumaker
On 09/16/2014 01:31 AM, NeilBrown wrote: > Support for loop-back mounted NFS filesystems is useful when NFS is > used to access shared storage in a high-availability cluster. > > If the node running the NFS server fails, some other node can mount the > filesystem and start providing NFS service. I

[PATCH 3/4] NFS: avoid deadlocks with loop-back mounted NFS filesystems.

2014-09-15 Thread NeilBrown
Support for loop-back mounted NFS filesystems is useful when NFS is used to access shared storage in a high-availability cluster. If the node running the NFS server fails, some other node can mount the filesystem and start providing NFS service. If that node already had the filesystem NFS mounted