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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS: Implement file locking
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 01:12:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7957.1180224739@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A02B7736-39AA-4B50-B682-756C387AEDEC@mac.com>

Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:

> I was actually under the impression that OpenAFS had support for byte- 
> range locking (as well as lock upgrade/downgrade);

As far as I know, there is no support for byte-range locking at all in the AFS
protocol itself.  The client can try to emulate byte-range locking locally,
but that's about it.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-27  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 16:55 [PATCH] AFS: Implement file locking David Howells
2007-05-25  7:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-05-26  2:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-26  3:11   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-27  0:12     ` David Howells [this message]
2007-05-26 23:55   ` David Howells
2007-05-27  2:25     ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-27  8:51       ` David Howells
2007-05-27 16:12         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-29  9:34           ` David Howells
2007-05-29 20:08             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-29 12:43           ` David Howells

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