----- "Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It also seems to me that if RHEL 4 is _not_ invalidating on lock, then > it is not working as designed. AFAIK the Linux NFS client has always > invalidated a file's data cache on lock. Did I misread something? > The flock support for NFS was only implemented in the 2.6.12 kernel. Hence on the RHEL 4 kernel ie 2.6.9 nfs_file_operations->flock is NULL and any flock operations performed by the application was only applicable on that node. No part of the NFS client code was executed for the flock() operation. Sachin Prabhu -- 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
