We do not and cannot support file locking with NFS reexport over
NFSv4.x for the same reason we don't do it for NFSv3: NFS reexport
server reboot cannot allow clients to recover locks because the source
NFS server has not rebooted, and so it is not in grace. Since the
source NFS server is not in grace, it cannot offer any guarantees that
the file won't have been changed between the locks getting lost and
any attempt to recover/reclaim them. The same applies to delegations
and any associated locks, so disallow them too.
Clients are no longer allowed to get file locks or delegations from a
reexport server, any attempts will fail with operation not supported.
Update the "Reboot recovery" section accordingly in
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/reexport.rst
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
We've supported reexport for a while but documentation is limited. This
is mainly a simplified version of the text I wrote for the linux-nfs
wiki at https://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFS_re-export.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
