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dlmfs: A minimal dlm userspace interface implemented via a virtual file system. Most of the OCFS2 tools make use of this to take cluster locks when doing operations on the file system. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
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dlmfs
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A minimal DLM userspace interface implemented via a virtual file
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system.
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dlmfs is built with OCFS2 as it requires most of its infrastructure.
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Project web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
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Tools web page: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
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OCFS2 mailing lists: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/mailman/
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All code copyright 2005 Oracle except when otherwise noted.
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CREDITS
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Some code taken from ramfs which is Copyright (C) 2000 Linus Torvalds
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and Transmeta Corp.
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Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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Caveats
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- Right now it only works with the OCFS2 DLM, though support for other
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DLM implementations should not be a major issue.
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Mount options
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None
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Usage
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=====
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If you're just interested in OCFS2, then please see ocfs2.txt. The
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rest of this document will be geared towards those who want to use
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dlmfs for easy to setup and easy to use clustered locking in
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userspace.
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Setup
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dlmfs requires that the OCFS2 cluster infrastructure be in
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place. Please download ocfs2-tools from the above url and configure a
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cluster.
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You'll want to start heartbeating on a volume which all the nodes in
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your lockspace can access. The easiest way to do this is via
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ocfs2_hb_ctl (distributed with ocfs2-tools). Right now it requires
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that an OCFS2 file system be in place so that it can automatically
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find it's heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat
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against raw disks.
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Please see the ocfs2_hb_ctl and mkfs.ocfs2 manual pages distributed
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with ocfs2-tools.
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Once you're heartbeating, DLM lock 'domains' can be easily created /
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destroyed and locks within them accessed.
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Locking
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=======
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Users may access dlmfs via standard file system calls, or they can use
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'libo2dlm' (distributed with ocfs2-tools) which abstracts the file
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system calls and presents a more traditional locking api.
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dlmfs handles lock caching automatically for the user, so a lock
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request for an already acquired lock will not generate another DLM
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call. Userspace programs are assumed to handle their own local
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locking.
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Two levels of locks are supported - Shared Read, and Exlcusive.
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Also supported is a Trylock operation.
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For information on the libo2dlm interface, please see o2dlm.h,
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distributed with ocfs2-tools.
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Lock value blocks can be read and written to a resource via read(2)
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and write(2) against the fd obtained via your open(2) call. The
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maximum currently supported LVB length is 64 bytes (though that is an
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OCFS2 DLM limitation). Through this mechanism, users of dlmfs can share
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small amounts of data amongst their nodes.
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mkdir(2) signals dlmfs to join a domain (which will have the same name
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as the resulting directory)
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rmdir(2) signals dlmfs to leave the domain
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Locks for a given domain are represented by regular inodes inside the
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domain directory. Locking against them is done via the open(2) system
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call.
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The open(2) call will not return until your lock has been granted or
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an error has occurred, unless it has been instructed to do a trylock
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operation. If the lock succeeds, you'll get an fd.
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open(2) with O_CREAT to ensure the resource inode is created - dlmfs does
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not automatically create inodes for existing lock resources.
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Open Flag Lock Request Type
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--------- -----------------
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O_RDONLY Shared Read
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O_RDWR Exclusive
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Open Flag Resulting Locking Behavior
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--------- --------------------------
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O_NONBLOCK Trylock operation
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You must provide exactly one of O_RDONLY or O_RDWR.
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If O_NONBLOCK is also provided and the trylock operation was valid but
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could not lock the resource then open(2) will return ETXTBUSY.
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close(2) drops the lock associated with your fd.
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Modes passed to mkdir(2) or open(2) are adhered to locally. Chown is
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supported locally as well. This means you can use them to restrict
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access to the resources via dlmfs on your local node only.
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The resource LVB may be read from the fd in either Shared Read or
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Exclusive modes via the read(2) system call. It can be written via
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write(2) only when open in Exclusive mode.
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Once written, an LVB will be visible to other nodes who obtain Read
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Only or higher level locks on the resource.
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See Also
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========
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http://opendlm.sourceforge.net/cvsmirror/opendlm/docs/dlmbook_final.pdf
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For more information on the VMS distributed locking API.
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