Trond Myklebust
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When the client is reading or writing using pNFS, and hits an error on the DS, then it typically sends a LAYOUTERROR and/or LAYOUTRETURN to the MDS, before redirtying the failed pages, and going for a new round of reads/writebacks. The problem is that if the server has no way to fix the DS, then we may need a way to interrupt this loop after a set number of attempts have been made. This patch adds an optional module parameter that allows the admin to specify how many times to retry the read/writeback process before failing with a fatal error. The default behaviour is to retry forever. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.