From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Upendra Moturi <upendra.m@hexagrid.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: need help for locking with nfs4
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:20:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213142045.GA28395@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHbZLqS-SHzFcsq+Ehnti6cKqhXKmJNbZDW0P+1sJbmb_eZb1A@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:11:36PM +0530, Upendra Moturi wrote:
> i want file to be locked and not accessed even from another nfs client.
The Linux client and server don't really support mandatory locking.
If that's a problem, then we'd need to understand why exactly you need
this, and why advisory locking isn't sufficient.
--b.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:39 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:43:03PM +0530, Upendra Moturi wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I need some example to configure nfs4 mandatory locking.
> > > I have setup nfs4 server and client.
> > > I want to enable mandatory locking so that no two clients can access
> > > file at same time.
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by "mandatory locking", and why isn't advisory
> > fcntl-based locking sufficient?
> >
> > --b.
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-01 10:13 need help for locking with nfs4 Upendra Moturi
2011-12-01 18:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2011-12-13 9:41 ` Upendra Moturi
2011-12-13 14:20 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
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