From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: asynchronous locks for cluster exports
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:51:08 +0000
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	Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:34:10AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> We'd like an asynchronous posix locking interface so that we can provide NFS
> 	- We added a new ->lock() export operation, figuring this was a feature
> 	  that only lockd and nfsd care about for now, and that we'd rather not
> 	  muck about with common locking code.  But the export operation is
> 	  pretty much identical to the file ->lock() operation; would it make
> 	  more sense to use that?

This definitly needs to be merged back into the ->lock file operation

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