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From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
To: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-cifs <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: ignore FL_FLOCK locks in read/write
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:11:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuq1zpo8.fsf@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKywueSCbANjCzPMnWJx7CXQM4kWO4pHtAhgpwwchMqCOcV0Lg@mail.gmail.com>

Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com> writes:
> If a flock is emulated on the server side with mandatory locks (which
> is what we only have for SMB2 without POSIX extensions) then we should
> maintain the same logic on the client. Otherwise you get different
> behavior depending on the caching policies currently in effect on the
> client side. You may consider testing with both modes when
> leases/oplocks are on and off.

Hm.. you're right, the write will fail on the server side without
cache.

I guess we should document current cifs behaviour in the flock man page.

Cheers,
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-24 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-23 18:27 [PATCH] cifs: ignore FL_FLOCK locks in read/write Aurélien Aptel
2021-02-23 18:39 ` Steve French
2021-02-23 18:58 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2021-02-24 11:11   ` Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2021-02-25  0:16     ` Pavel Shilovsky

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