From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off delegations in NFSv4 server?
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:00:34 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:57:01PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Besides hacking the code, is there an easy way to turn off NFSv4 
> delegations in the kernel v4 server?
> 
> I'd like to observe behavior of the Linux v4 client when delegations are 
> not available.

The easiest thing is probably just to turn off leases:

	echo 0 >/proc/sys/fs/leases-enable

--b.