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

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Thu Jun 18 10:21:27 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:06:02AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> 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.

	Do we need the hard_readonly check like other lock types?

Joel

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