[OpenIndiana-discuss] Standard flag for fast shutdown

[Sriram Narayanan]

I have used mcollective for such signalling. This is at a higher level,
though.

Ram
On Feb 17, 2014 2:52 PM, "Marcel Telka" <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:

> 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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