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

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 16:08:22 EST

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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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