[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/2] orphan lock fixes for local mode.

Sunil Mushran sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Thu Jun 18 09:06:02 PDT 2009


Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:48:08PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>   
>> Hi Joel/Srini,
>> 	Here are 2 patches for orphan lock in local mode.
>> patch 1:
>> 	In local mode, we don't need lvb, so don't init it.
>> patch 2:
>> 	In local mode, orphan lock and unlock don't need to go to dlm part.
>>     
> 	I would think we don't even need the orphan scan in local mode.
>
> Joel

Tao, Good catch.

Yes, we don't need the orphan scan in local mount. The earlier patch
that scans all the orphans slots mount should be sufficient.

Not calling ocfs2_orphan_scan_init() in ocfs2_initialize_super() should
be sufficient. But we should add Tao's patch 2 too for completeness.

Sunil



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