From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX) locks Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:49:23 -0700 Message-ID: <20131011234923.GD8688@samba2> References: <1381494322-2426-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20131011200756.GB22160@fieldses.org> <20131011192118.483e436f@tlielax.poochiereds.net> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Dilger , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Devel" , Ganesha NFS List , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Jeff Layton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131011192118.483e436f@tlielax.poochiereds.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: samba-technical-bounces@lists.samba.org Errors-To: samba-technical-bounces@lists.samba.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:36:43 -0600 Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > At this point, my main questions are: > > > > 1) does this look useful, particularly for fileserver implementors? Yes from the Samba perspective. We'll have to keep the old code around for compatibility with non-Linux OS'es, but this will allow Linux Samba to short-circuit a bunch of logic we have to get around the insane POSIX locking semantics on close. Jeremy.