Re: [Gluster-devel] FUSE 2.7.3?

[Brent A Nelson]

The unfs3 rm -rf issue occurs with a simple ext3 filesystem (and a ceph 
filesystem, both with Fuse and kernel clients), too, so it's not a 
GlusterFS bug.  I'll see about contacting the Unfs3 author...

Thanks,

Brent

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Brent A Nelson wrote:

> The nfs-kernel-server only seems to have the ESTALE issue with idle clients 
> cd'ed into the GlusterFS.  I have not encountered any other issue with 
> nfs-kernel-server in recent GlusterFS builds.
>
> However, the ESTALE issue is a bit of a showstopper, so I also test with 
> Unfs3 user-mode NFS.  It doesn't have the ESTALE issue, but it does have the 
> rm issue (also a showstopper), exactly as described in the discussion thread 
> which led to the FUSE patch.
>
> The last version I tested was from the April 3 TLA archive, however.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brent
>
> PS There were earlier rm -rf issues which affected both kernel-nfs and Unfs3 
> that did get fixed, but this one still persists (unless it was fixed after 
> April 3).
>
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Anand Avati wrote:
>
> > Brent,
> > thanks for the pointer. We have been having that (similar/equivalent) fix
> > in GlusterFS since a while. And from what I recollect, this change has made
> > GlusterFS work fine over nfs-re-export (for solaris clients as well), and
> > the issue currently being faced is the ESTALE error when you keep a shell
> > idle for a while. Please correct me if otherwise.
> >
> > avati
> >
> > 2008/4/22 Brent A Nelson <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > Thanks, but it looks like I might as well stick with 2.7.2.  The patch is
> > > actually for their fusexmp_fh.c example file, so the fix actually needs to
> > > be made in all the client codes out there...
> > >
> > > On that note, GlusterFS dudes, could you please take a look at the small
> > > patch at:
> > > http://fuse.cvs.sourceforge.net/fuse/fuse/example/fusexmp_fh.c?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&view=patchand 
> > > adjust the GlusterFS client code, accordingly? This should hopefully
> > > eliminate the last known glitch with unfs3 reexport, which is that rm -rf
> > > often doesn't work fully.
> > >
> > > Thanks,