From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Why NFS server does not pass lock requests via VFS lock() op? Date: 10 Oct 2002 00:32:02 +0100 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1034206322.1970.105.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List Return-path: Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42] helo=irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17zQ8l-0000lp-00 for ; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:21:19 -0700 To: Juan Gomez In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 00:11, Juan Gomez wrote: > > > > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs