On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com> wrote:

> My NFS client does not retry I/O.
> Ganesha is reusing FD instead of opening file for every read request.
> Sometimes it closes the fd even when there is a worker waiting still in
> read() call on the same fd. As a result that worker returns read error and
> ganesha drops the RPC. NFS client does not get any reply and it eventually
times
> out the I/O.
>
> I see 2 solutions.
>
> 1. NFS client implement I/O retry
> 2. Ganesha open the file and try read again when file not opened error is
> returned by FSAL.
> 3. Ganesha open the file for every read RPC instead of reusing FD.
>
> NFS client is a legacy implementation and it is not going to be fixed.
> Is there a way to achieve solutions 2 or 3?

What version of Ganesha are you using? Which FSAL?

Thanks

Frank

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