[OpenIndiana-discuss] Standard flag for fast shutdown

[Marcel Telka]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:42:03PM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote:
>   And on a similar note, are there any tricks for an OI NFS
> server to report to its clients that it is going to shut down?

No. There is no such support in the protocol. And you shouldn't need that. The
NFS protocol is designed to recover from server reboots.

> Usecase might be similar - a rebooting/UPS-shutdowning NFS
> server hosting some VM images can nicely tell its clients
> (VM hosts) to savestate and wait for it to come back...

You need to implement that yourself via a mechanism not directly related to
NFS.

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