WARNING: smbfs and locking

Reinhard Karcher
2003-02-11T13:01:55Z

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as out of date.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