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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: [3/8] File delegations, Usermode API of Bruce's pending patches.
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:28:21 +0300
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Here too we have not considered how this will look like.

Bruce has a pending patchset that will enable delegations
in the Kernel NFSD server. He has introduced a new delegation
object at the lock-manager, and so on.

We at user mode would like to acquire such delegations and
be notified of their revocation, synchronously so we can
recall them form clients before new access is granted.

Again perhaps this API can be united with the new locks
API we want.

fctl or syscall ?

Thanks
Boaz