posix locking on OCFS2

Min Wai Chan dcmwai at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 04:35:51 MST 2014


Dear Rowland,

I did test with ping_ping before
The ping_pong testing do work...

-- according to this
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Ping_pong


Thank You

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Ralph Böhme <rb at sernet.de> wrote:

> 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 Yes, the documentation is just out of date.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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