Oplock support for BSD?
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at nts.umn.edu
Mon Jun 25 17:21:39 GMT 2001
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
> > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ephi Dror wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > 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.
>
> The owner of the lock needs a way to be signaled to run a routine to
> release the lock, and possibly negotiate a less blocking lock.
>
> This capability is native in OpenVMS, and well documented for use with
> out doing "kernel hacking".
>
> I have not found any documentation to be used as a guide to implementing
> a LINUX compatable version, and likely will have to resort to deciphering
> the LINUX sources.
John,
I think Linux already has OpLock support. The BSDs support a virtual
filesystem layer and that's where the it could be added for *BSD.
Chris -)-----
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