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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