Oplock support for BSD?

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ephi Dror wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > 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()






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