[Lustre-devel] COS
Mikhail Pershin
Mikhail.Pershin at Sun.COM
Wed Jun 11 21:24:42 PDT 2008
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:38:46 +0400, Peter Braam <Peter.Braam at Sun.COM>
wrote:
>
> Intuitively (in the absence of a definition) only the server is making
> multiple updates to the directory content and mtime, and these are not
> shared with the clients. As a result, there are no dependencies for the
> part of the transaction that updates the directory as long as clients do
> not
> try to gain access with stat or readdir to the new entries in the
> directory.
Though the only server is doing updates to the directory there are still
dependencies like create() vs unlink() for the same name. E.g. lost
create() can cause failed unlink() replay and backwards.
>
> In a good design, issues like this are traceable. If they are not, we
> have
> found a defect in the design. Mike, Zam how do busy inodes play into
> use
> cases and requirements shown in the design document? To take things one
> step further, please define a busy inode (and I¹m having this feeling
> that
> once you define this, you will immediately add a new requirement to the
> design document).
VBR implementation handle this case, so we didn't forget about this case
during development. This case wasn't in design and it was found during
implementation/testing already and solution was discussed with Alex. The
HLD itself is not yet updated for this case, I am fixing this.
--
Mikhail Pershin
Staff Engineer
Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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