Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-05 Thread John Burwell
Edison, You have provided some great information below which helps greatly to understand the role of the "NFS cache" mechanism. To summarize, this mechanism is only currently required for Xen snapshot operations driven by Xen's coalescing operations. Is my understanding correct? Just out of

Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-05 Thread John Burwell
Edison, One thing I forgot to say is that reference counting be an unnecessary complexity in the event that sharing of the same resource by multiple process concurrently is rare. Thanks, -John On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:04 PM, John Burwell wrote: > Edison, > > You have provided some great informa

RE: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-05 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:04 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store > > Edison, > > You have provided some great in

RE: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-05 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:06 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store > > Edison, > > One thing I forgot to say is th

Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-06 Thread John Burwell
>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store >> >> Edison, >> >> You have provided some great information below which helps greatly to >> understand the role of the "NFS cache" mechanism. To summarize, this >> mechanism is

RE: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-06 Thread Edison Su
> -Original Message- > From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 7:47 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store > > Edison, > > Please my comments in-line below. &

Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-07 Thread John Burwell
>>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: John Burwell [mailto:jburw...@basho.com] >>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:04 PM >>>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >>>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-10 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
> >From a code perspective, I think it would behove us to implement a more >functional approach to command execution in order to ensure reference >counting, error handling, resource management are handled in a consistent >manner. I implemented such an approach in >com.cloud.utils.db.GlobalLock#ex

Re: [DISCUSS] NFS cache storage issue on object_store

2013-06-10 Thread John Burwell
Chiradeep, Looks like I have a rookie mistake in S3-backed Secondary Storage. I will investigate, and send a patch to lock on the management server side. Thanks, -John On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > >> >> From a code perspective, I think it would behove us to imple