[Linux-cluster] GFS
David Teigland
teigland at redhat.com
Fri Oct 29 05:17:05 UTC 2004
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:53:54PM -0500, tomc at teamics.com wrote:
> I thought that using flock() on a machine with a GFS patched kernel
> included some mojo that made flock() cluster aware. Is this not the case?
>
>
> If flock() is not GFS-aware, what should be the preferred mechanism for
> shared locks and exclusive locks? (A reference into a manual would be
> good reply if someone knows the answer).
Both flock() and fcntl() locks are cluster-wide on gfs. Since 2.6.9 no
kernel patches are required.
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Dave Teigland <teigland at redhat.com>
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