Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 11:21:23 +0100 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: Philippe Laquet <stom@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks? Message-ID: <46459523.3040801@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <4644F7D1.2090106@free.fr> References: <4644F7D1.2090106@free.fr>
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Philippe Laquet wrote: > > Dear All, > > I a trying to get HAVP (it works almost well, great software!) but I > also need to use the streaming option and it needs a FS mounted with > mandatory locks. I did not found any option with UFS(2) and also tried > with ext2fs loaded but the mount_ext2fs does not support "-o mand" ... > Any idea?... > > > My config : FBSD 6-STABLE > GENERIC Kernel > HAVP 0.85 (tuned makefile to compile the with STREAM function) > > Tried with : > mdconfig -a -t malloc -s32m > mount_ext2fs -o mand /dev/md0 /tmp/havp (the "mand" option is not > recognized) > I don't think that FreeBSD has mandatory file locks, I believe that all locks are advisory. I may be wrong but this is what the section on file/descriptor locking in "The Design And Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" seemed to suggest, this may have changed since 5.2 tho. Tom
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