Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:50:38 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> Cc: Philippe Laquet <stom@free.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks? Message-ID: <20070512175038.GA22856@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <46459523.3040801@tomjudge.com> References: <4644F7D1.2090106@free.fr> <46459523.3040801@tomjudge.com>
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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:21:23AM +0100, Tom Judge wrote: > 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. That's correct. Kris
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