[Lustre-discuss] Problem with flock and perl on Lustre FS

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-03-05, at 14:49, Jagga Soorma wrote:
> How does lustre handle locking?  One of our users is complaining  
> that a perl module (Sotrable) has trouble with its lock_nstore  
> method when it tries to use flock.  The following is a hwo they are  
> reporducing this issue:
>
>  DB<6> flock(FOO, LOCK_EX) || die "SHIE: $!"
> SHIE: Function not implemented at (eval
> 10)[/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/perl5db.pl:638] line 2.

Search the list or manual for "-o flock", "-o localflock", and "-o  
noflock" mount options for the client(s).

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.