looking for kernel oplock support specification

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Mon Feb 5 16:34:56 GMT 2001


Laine Stump wrote:
> 
> I just looked in the Samba sourc tarball, and did a search 
> of this mailing list on the web, and couldn't find 
> any documentation of the kernel oplock stuff other than 
> a short descriptive blurb in File-Cacheing.txt, and the 
> source code in oplock.c. Is there a more detailed 
> document somewhere? (something good enough to be used in
> adding kernel oplock cupport into another OS)?
> 
> File-Cacheing.txt says there are plans to put this into 
> FreeBSD; anybody know who is doing (is planning to do? 
> was planning to do?) that work? I'm actually more 
> interested in putting it into NetBSD, but if there is 
> code for FreeBSD around, that might help too.

Kernel oplock support has been added to the Linux kernel 2.4.
There are no interface specifications that I know of.  Sorry.






Cheers, jerry
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