Re: [PATCH] AFS: Implement file locking [try #2]

[David Howells]

J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yes.  I need to get the server lock first, before going to the VFS locking
> > routines.
> 
> That doesn't really answer the question.  The NFS client has similar
> requirements, but it doesn't have to duplicate the per-inode lists of
> granted locks, for example.

Actually, it might...  It's just that they're in the lock manager server, not
in the NFS client.

As far as I can tell, NFS passes each lock request individually to the lock
manager server, which grants them individually.  AFS doesn't do that.

David
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