Commit 26f6225f authored by Daniel W. S. Almeida's avatar Daniel W. S. Almeida Committed by Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST

Convert pnfs-block-server.txt to ReST and move it to admin-guide.
Content remains mostly unchanged.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c06903760e690c16d9df92f5e75f80381d6326d8.1578697871.git.dwlsalmeida@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent fbdcd0b8
......@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ NFS
nfs-rdma
nfsd-admin-interfaces
nfs-idmapper
pnfs-block-server
===================================
pNFS block layout server user guide
===================================
The Linux NFS server now supports the pNFS block layout extension. In this
case the NFS server acts as Metadata Server (MDS) for pNFS, which in addition
......@@ -22,16 +24,19 @@ If the nfsd server needs to fence a non-responding client it calls
/sbin/nfsd-recall-failed with the first argument set to the IP address of
the client, and the second argument set to the device node without the /dev
prefix for the file system to be fenced. Below is an example file that shows
how to translate the device into a serial number from SCSI EVPD 0x80:
how to translate the device into a serial number from SCSI EVPD 0x80::
cat > /sbin/nfsd-recall-failed << EOF
#!/bin/sh
cat > /sbin/nfsd-recall-failed << EOF
CLIENT="$1"
DEV="/dev/$2"
EVPD=`sg_inq --page=0x80 ${DEV} | \
grep "Unit serial number:" | \
awk -F ': ' '{print $2}'`
.. code-block:: sh
echo "fencing client ${CLIENT} serial ${EVPD}" >> /var/log/pnfsd-fence.log
EOF
#!/bin/sh
CLIENT="$1"
DEV="/dev/$2"
EVPD=`sg_inq --page=0x80 ${DEV} | \
grep "Unit serial number:" | \
awk -F ': ' '{print $2}'`
echo "fencing client ${CLIENT} serial ${EVPD}" >> /var/log/pnfsd-fence.log
EOF
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