From: Daniel W. S. Almeida Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:24:29 +0000 (-0300) Subject: Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26f6225fa53dc4ad26b9d9d712c0f55a92eb2c23;p=linux.git 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c06903760e690c16d9df92f5e75f80381d6326d8.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst index 8376d5225fc2a..365f42a611a43 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/index.rst @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ NFS nfs-rdma nfsd-admin-interfaces nfs-idmapper + pnfs-block-server diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-block-server.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-block-server.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..b00a2e705cc4d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/pnfs-block-server.rst @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +=================================== +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 + +.. code-block:: sh + + #!/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 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2143673cf1544..0000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs-block-server.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -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