Quoting Michael H. Warfield (m...@wittsend.com): > On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 07:56 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Jäkel, Guido (g.jae...@dnb.de): > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm late but I just want to mention that I expect that all this kind > > of "unlinking" on a NFS will show up as a stale NFS handle, i.e. a > > still visible hidden directory entry (.nfs00??????????????????????). > > Therefore, one have to take care of this (i.e. exclude) if he make a > > copy of such (for the purpose of cloning or even for backups). This > > isn't a LXC-, but a NFS-caveat. An NFS-aware will (should) know about > > to deal with this but there he should have to know (by the > > documentation) that LXC will use this unlinking mechanism to correlate > > this stale handle. > > > Will it use the same name every time? Will it eventually go away? > > > I really don't want a new switch for this. If we have to do something > > I'd rather detect nfs and do something different. > > Jäkel beat me to the punch on that one but he's absolutely right. The > whole delete a file with the file handle still open is known to NOT work > properly over NFS.
So are a lot of other things :) > In the back of my mind, I seem to recall some > discussion over whether NFS v3 would handle that case properly or not. > I could be wrong there but earlier versions would definitely NOT behave > as intended. I have no clue if it works over AFS or SMB but I > definitely would not trust it over any network file system. The results > could be unpredictable. I don't mind reverting that patch, but we're not putting in a config switch for it. My preference is for lxc to detect a netfs and behave differently there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel
