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"Filesystem" is not a word (although fairly common in use). Signed-off-by: Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@redhat.com>
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CephFS Reclaim Interface
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Introduction
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NFS servers typically do not track ephemeral state on stable storage. If
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the NFS server is restarted, then it will be resurrected with no
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ephemeral state, and the NFS clients are expected to send requests to
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reclaim what state they held during a grace period.
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In order to support this use-case, libcephfs has grown several functions
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that allow a client that has been stopped and restarted to destroy or
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reclaim state held by a previous incarnation of itself. This allows the
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client to reacquire state held by its previous incarnation, and to avoid
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the long wait for the old session to time out before releasing the state
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previously held.
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As soon as an NFS server running over cephfs goes down, it's racing
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against its MDS session timeout. If the Ceph session times out before
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the NFS grace period is started, then conflicting state could be
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acquired by another client. This mechanism also allows us to increase
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the timeout for these clients, to ensure that the server has a long
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window of time to be restarted.
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Setting the UUID
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----------------
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In order to properly reset or reclaim against the old session, we need a
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way to identify the old session. This done by setting a unique opaque
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value on the session using **ceph_set_uuid()**. The uuid value can be
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any string and is treated as opaque by the client.
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Setting the uuid directly can only be done on a new session, prior to
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mounting. When reclaim is performed the current session will inherit the
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old session's uuid.
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Starting Reclaim
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----------------
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After calling ceph_create and ceph_init on the resulting struct
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ceph_mount_info, the client should then issue ceph_start_reclaim,
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passing in the uuid of the previous incarnation of the client with any
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flags.
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CEPH_RECLAIM_RESET
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This flag indicates that we do not intend to do any sort of reclaim
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against the old session indicated by the given uuid, and that it
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should just be discarded. Any state held by the previous client
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should be released immediately.
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Finishing Reclaim
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-----------------
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After the Ceph client has completed all of its reclaim operations, the
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client should issue ceph_finish_reclaim to indicate that the reclaim is
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now complete.
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Setting Session Timeout (Optional)
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When a client dies and is restarted, and we need to preserve its state,
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we are effectively racing against the session expiration clock. In this
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situation we generally want a longer timeout since we expect to
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eventually kill off the old session manually.
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Example 1: Reset Old Session
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----------------------------
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This example just kills off the MDS session held by a previous instance
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of itself. An NFS server can start a grace period and then ask the MDS
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to tear down the old session. This allows clients to start reclaim
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immediately.
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(Note: error handling omitted for clarity)
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.. code-block:: c
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struct ceph_mount_info *cmount;
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const char *uuid = "foobarbaz";
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/* Set up a new cephfs session, but don't mount it yet. */
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rc = ceph_create(&cmount);
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rc = ceph_init(&cmount);
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/*
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* Set the timeout to 5 minutes to lengthen the window of time for
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* the server to restart, should it crash.
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*/
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ceph_set_session_timeout(cmount, 300);
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/*
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* Start reclaim vs. session with old uuid. Before calling this,
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* all NFS servers that could acquire conflicting state _must_ be
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* enforcing their grace period locally.
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*/
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rc = ceph_start_reclaim(cmount, uuid, CEPH_RECLAIM_RESET);
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/* Declare reclaim complete */
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rc = ceph_finish_reclaim(cmount);
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/* Set uuid held by new session */
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ceph_set_uuid(cmount, nodeid);
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/*
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* Now mount up the file system and do normal open/lock operations to
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* satisfy reclaim requests.
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*/
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ceph_mount(cmount, rootpath);
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...
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