On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:16:06PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > The lease code behavior during the lease-breaking process is strange. > Fixing it completely would be complicated by the fact that the current > code allows a lease break to downgrade the lease instead of necessarily > removing it. > > But I can't see what the point of that feature is. And googling around > and looking at the Samba code, I can't see any evidence that anyone uses > it. Think we could just do away with removing the ability to downgrade > to satisfy a lease break? Without having looked too deeply, just let me point out that Samba here has a plain flaw. Early Linux Kernel versions that we programmed against did not properly support read only leases, so we did not implement that initially. If I remember correctly we never got around to finally do it once it became available. Eventually we will probably, as read only leases are a pretty important feature to present to CIFS clients. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
