Re: [PATCH] Nfs lost locks

[Philippe Troin]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Philippe Troin wrote:
> 
> > The NFS client is prone to loose locks on filesystems when the locking
> > process is killed with a signal. This has been discussed on the nfs
> > mailing list in these threads:
> >
> >   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3213117&forum_id=4930
> >
> >   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfs&m=107074045907620&w=2
> >
> > Marcelo, if the above links are not sufficient, please email back for
> > more details.
> >
> > The enclosed patch is from Trond, and it fixes the problem.
> 
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> It might be wise to wait for the patch to be in 2.6 first?
> 
> Trond, what do you think?

I do not know about the 2.6.x status, but Trond requested help with
pushing this patch to the kernel, mentionning he was very busy with
NFSv4.

I personnaly think it fixes a serious problem with file locking on
NFS, but that's my assessment.

Phil.
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