From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nfs lost locks
Date: 24 Feb 2004 11:54:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wu6cckys.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0402241607500.23951@logos.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> writes:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> > The NFS client is prone to loose locks on filesystems when the locking
> > process is killed with a signal. This has been discussed on the nfs
> > mailing list in these threads:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3213117&forum_id=4930
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfs&m=107074045907620&w=2
> >
> > Marcelo, if the above links are not sufficient, please email back for
> > more details.
> >
> > The enclosed patch is from Trond, and it fixes the problem.
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> It might be wise to wait for the patch to be in 2.6 first?
>
> Trond, what do you think?
I do not know about the 2.6.x status, but Trond requested help with
pushing this patch to the kernel, mentionning he was very busy with
NFSv4.
I personnaly think it fixes a serious problem with file locking on
NFS, but that's my assessment.
Phil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-24 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-21 2:35 [PATCH] Nfs lost locks Philippe Troin
2004-02-24 19:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-24 19:54 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2004-02-24 21:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-04-14 21:25 ` Philippe Troin
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