posix locking on OCFS2

Ralph Böhme rb at sernet.de
Fri Nov 21 05:46:13 MST 2014


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:32:12PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 21/11/14 10:53, steve wrote:
> >OCFS2 does not
> >>support posix file (fcntl) locking
> >
> >Ah, so that's why it doesn't work. With CTDB.
> >
> >Could this be added to the documentation? e.g.
> >https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/CTDB_Setup

as I was trying to point out, this

  "Unfortunately OCFS2 does not support posix file (fcntl) locking
  yet."

is probably wrong. You just need a userspace cluster stack:

<https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-users/2010-March/004228.html>

-Ralph

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