From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262417AbUBXTyW (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:54:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262421AbUBXTyW (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:54:22 -0500 Received: from tantale.fifi.org ([216.27.190.146]:22923 "EHLO tantale.fifi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262417AbUBXTyT (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:54:19 -0500 To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-kernel , Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] Nfs lost locks References: <87k72h17n7.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> Mail-Copies-To: nobody From: Philippe Troin Date: 24 Feb 2004 11:54:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87wu6cckys.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marcelo Tosatti 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.