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Right now a client requesting a null mode for a lock will cause invalidations of all existing granted modes of the lock across the cluster. This is unneccessarily broad. The absolute requirement is that a null request invalidates other existing granted modes on the client. That's how the client safely resolves shrinking's desire to free locks while the locks are in use. It relies on turning it into the race between use and remote invalidation. But that only requires invalidating existing grants from the requesting client, not all clients. It is always safe for null grants to coexist with all grants on other clients. Consider the existing mechanics involving null modes. First, null locks are instatiated on the client before sending any requests at all. At any given time newly allocated null locks are coexisting with all existing locks across the cluster. Second, the server frees the client entry tracking struct the moment it sends a null grant to the client. From that point on the client's null lock can not have any impact on the rest of the lock holders because the server has forgotten about it. So we add this case to the server's test that two client lock modes are compatible. We take the opportunity to comment the heck out of this function instead of making it a dense boolean composition. The only functional change is the addition of this case, the existing cases are refactored but unchanged. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@versity.com>
Introduction
scoutfs is a clustered in-kernel Linux filesystem designed to support large archival systems. It features additional interfaces and metadata so that archive agents can perform their maintenance workflows without walking all the files in the namespace. Its cluster support lets deployments add nodes to satisfy archival tier bandwidth targets.
The design goal is to reach file populations in the trillions, with the archival bandwidth to match, while remaining operational and responsive.
Highlights of the design and implementation include:
- Fully consistent POSIX semantics between nodes
- Atomic transactions to maintain consistent persistent structures
- Integrated archival metadata replaces syncing to external databases
- Dynamic seperation of resources lets nodes write in parallel
- 64bit throughout; no limits on file or directory sizes or counts
- Open GPLv2 implementation
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