[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 for HPC

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Mon Aug 8 13:55:51 CDT 2005


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:58:21AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> If you're talking about userspace file lock (flock, posix locks, etc) then
> OCFS2 won't guarantee this accross the cluster  - it'll only lock on the
> local node.
	
	That said, NFS-safe lockfile algorithms should work just fine.
See lockfile_create(3) if you have liblockfile.

Joel

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