From: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: unlock during lockd recovery
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:44:10 -0800
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nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 11/23/2004 12:10:47 AM:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 04:45:53PM -0800, Marc Eshel wrote:
> > Is there a reason why unlock needs to wait for the lockd to come out of
> > grace period ?

> The lock may not have been reclaimed by the client yet, so you may end up
> with a stale lock.


If the client application unlocks the lock before it was reclaimed than it
should not be reclaimed.
Isn't there some serialization of activity on the client between the client
requests for lock/unlock and the reclaim process?

Marc.


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