On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:16 -0800, Joe Little wrote: > The roadmap (links to that on google fail, but found a PDF) reports > that 1.6 release marks lockf/flock support as possible/untested. I see > from the changelogs that it should be there. I have setup a lustre > filesystem for use in the CAD space for simulations. ModelSim, for > whatever reason, is failing to lock files in the its chain of > attempted lock mechanisms, and in the end tries and fails to use NFS > style locks, or so the CAD guys tell me. I'm curious if this _should_ > work on 1.6, and if not, is there a relatively accessible 1.8 build > with this currently?
Hi Joe, Yes, the support is better and better the more recent the release. But even as of a number of releases ago, localflock should be working. If you don't need cluster coherent locks, just applications on a single single not failing because of missing flock semantics, localflock is the better option to use. If you really do need cluster coherent flock, you should use a recent (i.e. 1.6.4.2) a release as you can. b.
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