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authorDaniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>2020-01-10 20:24:29 -0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-01-16 12:43:05 -0700
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Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST
Convert pnfs-block-server.txt to ReST and move it to admin-guide. Content remains mostly unchanged. Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c06903760e690c16d9df92f5e75f80381d6326d8.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-pNFS block layout server user guide
-
-The Linux NFS server now supports the pNFS block layout extension. In this
-case the NFS server acts as Metadata Server (MDS) for pNFS, which in addition
-to handling all the metadata access to the NFS export also hands out layouts
-to the clients to directly access the underlying block devices that are
-shared with the client.
-
-To use pNFS block layouts with with the Linux NFS server the exported file
-system needs to support the pNFS block layouts (currently just XFS), and the
-file system must sit on shared storage (typically iSCSI) that is accessible
-to the clients in addition to the MDS. As of now the file system needs to
-sit directly on the exported volume, striping or concatenation of
-volumes on the MDS and clients is not supported yet.
-
-On the server, pNFS block volume support is automatically if the file system
-support it. On the client make sure the kernel has the CONFIG_PNFS_BLOCK
-option enabled, the blkmapd daemon from nfs-utils is running, and the
-file system is mounted using the NFSv4.1 protocol version (mount -o vers=4.1).
-
-If the nfsd server needs to fence a non-responding client it calls
-/sbin/nfsd-recall-failed with the first argument set to the IP address of
-the client, and the second argument set to the device node without the /dev
-prefix for the file system to be fenced. Below is an example file that shows
-how to translate the device into a serial number from SCSI EVPD 0x80:
-
-cat > /sbin/nfsd-recall-failed << EOF
-#!/bin/sh
-
-CLIENT="$1"
-DEV="/dev/$2"
-EVPD=`sg_inq --page=0x80 ${DEV} | \
- grep "Unit serial number:" | \
- awk -F ': ' '{print $2}'`
-
-echo "fencing client ${CLIENT} serial ${EVPD}" >> /var/log/pnfsd-fence.log
-EOF