Oplock support for BSD?

[Tim Potter]

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.