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Subject: Re: Why NFS server does not pass lock requests via VFS lock() op?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Juan Gomez <juang@us.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 00:11, Juan Gomez wrote:
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> Could anyone remind me of why NFS kernel would not pass byte range lock
> requests to the underlying filsystem at the server side?
> I think another person at IBM (Brian?) submitted a patch for this but such
> patch never got included in the distribution.

I know Matthew had the patches, and I know I looked at them and they
seemed sane enough. But I don't know where they eventually went. Things
like NFS over AFS are going to need it

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