strange F_SETLEASE/F_RDLCK behaviour

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Nov 12 13:21:58 MST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:24:23PM +0100, David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:53:13 +0100
> David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Interestingly, I ran into strange F_SETLEASE/F_RDLCK behaviour while
> > testing locally.
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111511455406623&w=2
> 
> Looks like we only ever call setlease with F_WRLCK, so this shouldn't
> affect us.

Linux kernel oplocks are pretty useless for us. Even more so
when we start doing leases soon. Just dump that concept
altogether from your matrix.

Volker

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