[Linux-cluster] GFS

David Teigland teigland at redhat.com
Fri Oct 29 08:15:39 UTC 2004


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:40:00AM +0100, Gradimir Starovic wrote:
> > Both flock() and fcntl() locks are cluster-wide on gfs.  
> > Since 2.6.9 no kernel patches are required.
> > 
> 
> Is fcntl() locking working for nfs over gfs now, or is server 
> still calling posix_lock_file w/o calling fs-specific lock()?

As far as I know, nfs only acquires locks in the vfs (posix_lock_file).
Do you know anyone who has begun work to add fs-specific calls?

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Dave Teigland  <teigland at redhat.com>




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