posix locking on OCFS2

Ralph Böhme rb at sernet.de
Sun Nov 23 04:15:03 MST 2014


On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:03:26PM +0100, David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:47:54 +0100, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> 
> > > Unfortunately, POSIX file locks, also known as lockf(3) or fcntl(2) locks
> > > are not yet supported in a cluster manner. We hope to have that ready in an
> > > upcoming version of Ocfs2.  
> > 
> > possibly a documentation bug? Few lines below it states:
> 
> Yes, the documentation is just out of date. OCFS2 (alongside DLM)
> supports cluster coherent POSIX locks, which can be tested via the
> ping_pong tool provided with ctdb.  I've reverted the erroneous Wiki
> update.

thanks David!

-Ralph

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