From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: lockd: couldn't create RPC handle for
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:08:05 -0400
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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:02 +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:

> > If you need
> > locking support, then you have to run the kernel NFS server.
> I was under the impression that locking support helped data integrity.
> Is that right?

Yes. It is the standard way to ensure that 2 processes can read and
write safely to the same file without losing data. Other schemes are
possible, but are less well supported under NFS.

Cheers,
  Trond


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