J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 05:56:30PM +0300, Idan Kedar wrote: > > After the NFS server restarts it has a grace period of 90 seconds, for > > recovery purposes. You can read about it online. > > You can also look it up on the NFS 4.1 RFC 5661: > > http://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=5661 > > Yes. In this particular case it's NLM, not NFSv4, but it's the same > basic idea: no new locks (opens too in the case of NFSv4) are allowed > for a while at the start, to give previous clients a chance to reclaim > their locks first. I see. I wondered because the process blocked at fcntl() rather than open(), but I understand that this is expected behaviour. Thank you. -- 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