[ogfs-dev]Re: [Opendlm-devel] Making progress on mounting with ODLM lock module

> Stanley's removal of a call to release_mount_lock() yesterday got me
> thinking about the internal (to lock module) MOUNT lock.  I'm thinking
> right now that we don't need it; memexp used an internal MOUNT lock to
> determine whether a node was first-to-mount (see ogfs-memexp doc).
As I understood, the mount lock is used to make sure that there is only
one node is doing the mount work in a same time. It serialize all mount
request. Please have a check.

Best Regards,
Stan

>   But
> we're using deadman locks to do the same.  I don't think we need the
> (redundant/useless?) MOUNT lock, so I commented out the
> grab_mount_lock() and release_mount_lock() implementations.  We can
> think about that a little more before totally removing those functions.

> -- Ben --
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