[Lustre-discuss] flock/lockf support

[Klaus Steden]

Hi Joe,

I know that as of v1.6.2, POSIX file locking semantics did not work.

The 1.6 roadmap, the last time I looked at it, indicated that support is
coming but had not yet been implemented.

cheers,
Klaus

On 2/14/08 11:16 AM, "Joe Little" <jmlittle at gmail.com>did etch on stone
tablets:

> The roadmap (links to that on google fail, but found a PDF) reports
> that 1.6 release marks lockf/flock support as possible/untested. I see
> from the changelogs that it should be there. I have setup a lustre
> filesystem for use in the CAD space for simulations. ModelSim, for
> whatever reason, is failing to lock files in the its chain of
> attempted lock mechanisms, and in the end tries and fails to use NFS
> style locks, or so the CAD guys tell me. I'm curious if this _should_
> work on 1.6, and if not, is there a relatively accessible 1.8 build
> with this currently?
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