Re: Proposal for new lock ownership scheme to support NFS over distributed filesystems

Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:08:22 +0000


Hey, how about cc'ing either me or linux-fsdevel when discussing file
locking in the future as described in MAINTAINERS?

Your idea doesn't work because we need fl_owner to be the files_struct
for local locks. It also doesn't work because IPv4 is not the only
protocol which NFS runs over.

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