From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: lockd grace period
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:58:30 -0500
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To: "Aswathanarayana, Chetan (STSD)" <chetan.aswathanarayana@hp.com>
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Aswathanarayana, Chetan (STSD) wrote:

>Say, a reclaim request arrives after grace period and get's lock. There
>will be time frame between end of grace period and arrival of
>Reclaim request, in which case any thing can happen(ex: a new request
>could be granted, it may make some changes to a file and unlock by the
>time Reclaim arrives).
>  
>
Nobody  is saying this NLM protocol or method of recovery is perfect.... 
;-)  This
is one of many reasons why the locking protocol is not integrated with the
NFSv4 protocol...

steved.



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