[Linux-cluster] lock_dlm but local flocks = true?

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 08:43 +0100, frank wrote:
> Hi Steve, I have not answered before because I was on holidays. By the 
> way, happy new year.
> 
> I have looked /proc/mounts as you told me, and ... surprise:
> 
> /dev/mapper/volCluster-lvol0 /mnt/gfs gfs 
> rw,hostdata=jid=0:id=196610:first=1,localflocks 0 0
> 
> "localflocks" is there! I don't understand because I mount it using 
> "/etc/init.d/gfs start" which looks at /etc/fstab, and there the line is:
> 
> /dev/volCluster/lvol0    /mnt/gfs     gfs    defaults  0 0
> 
> I must admit that there is a particular thing in this system which I 
> thought it didn't affect, but I am not so sure now, and that is it is a 
> OpenVZ patched kernel. Can this have something to do with gfs mounts?
> 
> Thanks for your help once more.
> 
That does seem strange. You could try stracing the mount command when
its run and that might show you the source of the localflocks flag,

Steve.