Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Nfs lost locks | From | Philippe Troin <> | Date | 24 Feb 2004 11:54:03 -0800 |
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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.
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