Hi Jeff, Thanks for your reply. Basically what I want is "the file which is used under CIFS share should not get overwritten from a nfs share and vice versa." . I might be looking for mandatory file locking in nfs share. Thanks Anoop > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Layton [mailto:jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:53 PM > To: Anoop P.A. > Cc: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: NFS-CIFS locking > > On Tue, 19 May 2009 23:11:40 -0700 > "Anoop P.A." <Anoop_P.A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi List, > > I have a use case where I will export one share through samba, FTP and > NFS. Is there any way to achieve cross protocol locking? I am using Linux > kernel 2.6.18. > > Any inputs highly appreciated. > > > > FTP doesn't really do any locking so that shouldn't be an issue. NFS > just uses regular posix locks. I think samba by default uses posix > locks on the backend (subject to the setting of the "posix locking" > parameter in smb.conf), so I that that should also work there. > > If you're having problems with that, then you may have better luck > asking this question on one of the samba mailing lists... > > Cheers, > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
