[linux-cifs-client] RE: [linux-cifs-client} further testing, locking or lack of issue and other.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:11:38PM -0700, Tory M Blue wrote:
> 
> Using smbmount only. Accessing a Network Appliance share (NAS) from multiple
> Linux boxes. Running into issues with file locking. We are doing this as we
> migrate away from MS and to Linux, however we need Case insensitivity in the
> short term (will end up going longer then I like), but thus the need for
> some type of SMB/CIFS Filesystem.
> 
> We are using "java.nio.channels.FileLock"
> 
> We are seeing locks not honored and also lots of  java.io.IOException:
> Resource deadlock avoided. We see this in both NFS and SMB FS mounts.
> Locking is just not working correctly

Have you tried this against a Samba server ? Can you reproduce this
there ? If not then it looks like a NetApp bug.

Jeremy.