linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX) locks

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Message-ID: <20131011234923.GD8688@samba2>
Date:	Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:49:23 -0700
From:	Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Devel" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] locks: implement "filp-private" (aka UNPOSIX)
 locks

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:36:43 -0600 Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > At this point, my main questions are:
> > 
> > 1) does this look useful, particularly for fileserver implementors?

Yes from the Samba perspective. We'll have to keep the old
code around for compatibility with non-Linux OS'es, but this
will allow Linux Samba to short-circuit a bunch of logic
we have to get around the insane POSIX locking semantics
on close.

Jeremy.
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