Re: [PATCH 2/6] locks: provide a file lease method enabling cluster-coherent leases

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:21:26PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently leases are only kept locally, so there's no way for a distributed
> filesystem to enforce them against multiple clients.  We're particularly
> interested in the case of nfsd exporting a cluster filesystem, in which
> case nfsd needs cluster-coherent leases in order to implement delegations
> correctly.

Looks good but should be moved second to last in the patch series, with
the last one beeing implementing setleast for gfs.  Also see my comment
to the nfs patch about the default semantics for not implementing the
method.

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