Managing Byte-Range Locks and Open File Handles

Use the following procedures to list and release byte-range locks and open file handles for a certain file.

List and Release Byte-Range Locks for a File (VAST Web UI)

To list and release byte-range locks for a file:

From the left navigation menu, select Element Store and then Views to open the Views page.
Right-click a view, select Multi-Protocol File State and then Byte-Range Locks.
NOTE: If you running a version prior to VAST Cluster 5.3.5: select Locks and then File Byte-range locks and open handles.
The File handles and Byte-range locks on a File dialog is displayed with the Byte-Range Locks tab opened.
In the Full path field, enter the path to the locked file. This is formed as: <view>/<filename>, where <view> is the view you selected (relative to the preselected tenant), and <filepath> is the path to the file locked by the client, relative to the path of the view.
For example, supposing we created a view named /Export and we mounted the view onto an NFS client directory named /Directory. Suppose we create and lock a file under /Directory named examplefile. To search for that lock, we need to search for the file path /Export/examplefile.

Click Show Locks and Handles.
The grid below is populated with byte-range locks on the specified file.
The following information is displayed for each lock:

Lock Path	The path to the locked file.
Lock Type	The lock type: NLM4 locks taken by NFSv3 clients NFS4 locks taken by NFSv4 clients SMB locks
Creation Time	The time the lock was acquired.
Caller	An identifier of the the client that acquired the lock. This could be an IP or host name of the client.
Owner	An identifier internal to the client kernel for the specific process that owns the lock.
Exclusive	Whether the lock is an exclusive (write) lock or a shared (read) lock. Yes. The lock is an exclusive or write lock acquired by the client. No. The lock is a shared, or read, lock. Many clients can access the file to read it, but no client may write to the locked byte range.
Granted Type	The type of delegation granted to the client. READ. No other client has the ability to write to the file for the duration of the delegation. WRITE. no other client has read or write access to the file for the duration of the delegation.
Length	The number of bytes of the file locked by the lock. A length of 0 means the lock reaches until the end of the file. If both offset and length are 0, the entire file is locked.
Offset	The number of bytes from the beginning of the file's byte range from which the lock begins.
Svid	A kernel identifier of the owning process on the client machine.
State	The lock's state ID.
Client ID	The lock's client ID.
Open ID	The lock's open ID.
Lock ID	The lock's lock ID.

If you want to release locks on the selected file, click Release All File Locks.
All the byte-range locks for the file are removed from the VAST Cluster server.

Release All Byte-Range File Locks for a View (VAST Web UI)

To release all byte range file locks under a view's directory and recursively in all its subdirectories:

From the left navigation menu, select Element Store and then Views to open the Views page.
Right-click the view for which you want to release locks and click Multi-Protocol File State -> Release All Locks from Directory and Sub Directories.
Confirm the action in the confirmation prompt.

List and Close Open File Handles for a File (VAST Web UI)

NOTE: This feature is available starting with VAST Cluster 5.3.5.

To list and close open file handles for a file:

From the left navigation menu, select Element Store and then Views to open the Views page.
Right-click a view, select Multi-Protocol File State and then Open Protocol Handles.
The File handles and Byte-range locks on a File dialog is displayed with the Open Protocol Handles tab opened.
In the Full path field, enter the path to the open file. This is formed as: <view>/<filename>, where <view> is the view you selected (relative to the pre-selected tenant), and <filepath> is the path to the file opened by the client, relative to the path of the view.
For example, supposing we created a view named /ExportExample and we mounted the view onto an NFS client directory named /DirectoryExample. Suppose we create and open a file under /DirectoryExample named examplefile. To search for that open file handle, we need to search for the file path /ExportExample/examplefile.

Click Show Locks and Open Handles.
The grid below is populated with open file handles for the specified file.
The following information is displayed for each open file handle:

Protocol	The protocol used to open the file (SMB or NFS).
Client IP	The IP address of the client.
Username	The name of the user for which the handle was created.
Session ID	The ID of the session where the handle was created.
Unique ID	The unique ID of the handle.
Share Access	SMB share permissions.
Access mask	A list of SMB access masks.
Lease	Indicates whether there is an SMB lease on the file.
File Mode	NFS file permissions.
NFSv4 sequence ID	The NFSv4 sequence number used in the lock request.

Select a handle you want to close and choose Close in the context menu. Note that this action is supported for SMB handles only.