On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:53:54PM -0500, tomc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I thought that using flock() on a machine with a GFS patched kernel > included some mojo that made flock() cluster aware. Is this not the case? > > > If flock() is not GFS-aware, what should be the preferred mechanism for > shared locks and exclusive locks? (A reference into a manual would be > good reply if someone knows the answer). Both flock() and fcntl() locks are cluster-wide on gfs. Since 2.6.9 no kernel patches are required. -- Dave Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx>
