On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:24:51AM -0400, Ray Pittigher wrote: >> When running a NFS server on Fedora how can I see what files are in use >> by others over the NFS mount? > > In "classic" NFS this isn't really possible. NFS is stateless, so on > the server you can only see momentary reads and writes from files, you > cannot see if a file is, say, opened by a client but the client is not > reading and writing to it at that moment. > > Modern NFS is a little bit different. I think NFSv4 maintains more > state on the server, and also you've got things like file locking, so > maybe it is possible to get more information out in those cases. > Someone else who knows about NFSv4 will have to answer that more > definitively though. > > http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_a6 File locking was available in earlier NFS versions as well, and /proc/locks would tell you what the locks on the server were though many would be local locks. Michael Young -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
