On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:31 +0800, Mi Jinlong wrote: > Hi Trond, > > Trond Myklebust: > > The ability to cache locks is one of the main reasons for holding > > delegations in the first place. Sure, the spec allows for non-posix > > locking, but the Linux client doesn't. > > Would you mind tell me some about why we not support non-posix locking at NFS ? For the very obvious reason that Linux applications are coded under the assumption that the kernel implements POSIX locking semantics. Why would we want to implement support for NFS features that can cause perfectly correctly coded applications to hang and crash? Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- 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
