From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS: Implement file locking Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 01:12:19 +0100 Message-ID: <7957.1180224739@redhat.com> References: <20070524165554.22292.38887.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20070526022342.GA20905@fieldses.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Kyle Moffett Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39008 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107AbXE0AM2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:12:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Kyle Moffett 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