On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:44:18AM +0200, Fran?ois Legal wrote: > Anyway, I gave a test drive on this, and seem to be having locking > issues (users on both side can modify the same file without anything > preventing this). Can anybody comment on this. > > That's just POSIX semantics. You could even have two users on the same > machine accessing the same file and modifying it concurrently. If you want > locks then (a) your application has to ask for them, and (b) other > applications must also respect them [unless you're talking about mandatory > locks, which are an unusual feature] > > Well, that kind of file sharing used to work great with samba (talking > about excel files shared via samba) on a single file system. Ah, then the application probably *is* asking for a lock of some sort, but that lock isn't being passed through. In theory it should be possible to replicate this and generate a trace of the messages being passed through to glusterfsd (but I'm afraid I don't know the best way to do that)
