Re: [PATCH] Nfs lost locks

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 13:27:33 EST




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?
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