On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:39:51PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:30:32AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote: > > If I understood the Isilon presentation during EuroBSDCon 2009 correctly > > FreeBSD 8.0 has an in-kernel lockd. Porting their code might be > > an option to achieve that. > > One nice thing about the userland lockd is that if you restart it, > all the locks are dropped.
Does it really? I have to remove "/var/db/statd.status" to achieve that. > It's an easy way to clean up locks that have been forgotten by clients ... We could add a knob to the in-kernel lockd which does that. Kind regards -- Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/