[Ocfs2-devel] NFS exports of cluster filesystems

Mark Fasheh mark.fasheh at oracle.com
Wed Jan 11 15:49:05 CST 2006


Hi Bruce,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:25:00PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On a quick skim it doesn't appear to define a ->lock() method anywhere.
> Which I assume means that it doesn't attempt to provide cluster coherent
> posix byte-range (fcntl/lockf) locks.  Are there plans to change this?
You're correct in that right now OCFS2 does not support cluster coherent
posix locks. It is definitely on our TODO list, though it may take time as
the changes required are not trivial at all.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
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