From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Reinhard Karcher Subject: WARNING: smbfs and locking Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:01:55 +0100 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030211130155.GB913@Amis.berlin.frey> References: <03021110072701.01279@anderson.cdc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03021110072701.01279@anderson.cdc.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:07:27AM -0200, Anderson Pereira Ataides wrote > > NFS *does* support locking though. > I tried to mount a nfs resource and two linux boxes can't see locks made by > each other. That means a file locked in a linux box is not seen by the other > Linux box. Am I missing something? > > Reading dosemu docs, it's written that I must mount nfs nolock. What does > that mean? If nfs "does" support locking, why must I disable this? And in > fact I really have to export it nolock because if I don't dosemu does not > work. > As far as I know, this applies to userland nfsserver. The kernelspace nfsserver is OK with locking. I consider this part of the documention as out of date. Reinhard