Hi, I am reposting my question because I feel it is quite substantial. IMHO, some mechanism to ensure data integrity is needed for "lost locks". On 06/11/10 11:15 PM, Nils Goroll wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder what happens if a lock on nfs4 has been acquired by an application (for > instance, using fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, F_WRLCK)) and the lock can't be RENEWed, for > instance due to a network outage preventing communication between the client and > the server. > > I would have thought that some notification mechanism was useful, for instance > my means of delivery of a signal as set using F_SETOWN / F_SETSIG for leases. > > I would highly appreciate helpful pointers should this question have already > been discussed of if there exists any other helpful documentation on it. > > Thank you, > > Nils > -- > 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 -- 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
