Oplock support for BSD?
Tim Potter
tpot at valinux.com
Sat Jun 16 05:51:28 GMT 2001
Gerald Carter writes:
> > > > Does anyone know if there is a work in progress to support Oplock on
> > > > any of the BSD based OSs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.) besides
> > > > Linux and Irix.
> > >
> > > No idea. Does anyone have word on this?
> >
> > What would be involved? Is this a change to the filesystem? I'm curious
> > to know what has to happen in the OS to make OpLocks happen.
>
> Kernel level support (see IRIX 6.5.2f+ and Linux 2.4 kernels)
> Basically is another option to fcntl()
The linux oplock/lease support would be a good place to start
looking.
Tim.
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