Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:24:11 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VOP_LEASE Message-ID: <41ED3941-E5E6-45F0-B880-C1B2861FDE32@rabson.org> In-Reply-To: <200804121703.m3CH3StJ081660@chez.mckusick.com>
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On 12 Apr 2008, at 18:03, Kirk McKusick wrote: >> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:13:15 -1000 (HST) >> From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> >> To: arch@freebsd.org >> Subject: VOP_LEASE >> >> As far as I can tell this has never been used. Unless someone can >> show me >> otherwise I'm going to go ahead and remove it. >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff > > VOP_LEASE is used by NQNFS and NFSv4. It notifies them when a file > is modified locally so that they know to update any outstanding > leases (e.g., evict any write lease for the file and do callbacks > for any read leases for the file). Deleting VOP_LEASE would break > NFS big time. I think our NQNFS support might have been removed some time ago - I can't see any calls to VOP_LEASE in the code right now. Something like VOP_LEASE would certainly be useful for a hypothetical future NFSv4 server. I believe that samba could use it too for its oplocks feature which appears to be similar to NQNFS's leases and NFSv4's delegations.home | help
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