* misono.tomoh...@fujitsu.com (misono.tomoh...@fujitsu.com) wrote: > > Right now we enable remote posix locks by default. That means when guest > > does a posix lock it sends request to server > > (virtiofsd). But currently we only support non-blocking posix lock and > > return -EOPNOTSUPP for blocking version. > > > > This means that existing applications which are doing blocking posix locks > > get -EOPNOTSUPP and fail. To avoid this, > > people have been running virtiosd with option "-o no_posix_lock". For new > > users it is still a surprise and trial and error > > takes them to this option. > > > > Given posix lock implementation is not complete in virtiofsd, disable it by > > default. This means that posix locks will work > > with-in applications in a guest but not across guests. Anyway we don't > > support sharing filesystem among different guests > > yet in virtiofs so this should not lead to any kind of surprise or > > regression and will make life little easier for virtiofs users. > > > > Reported-by: Aa Aa <jimbot...@yandex.com> > > Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com> > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgo...@redhat.com> > > --- > > tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > We should update docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst as well. Given that: > Reviewed-by: Misono Tomohiro <misono.tomoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>
Fixed up the doc. Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Virtio-fs mailing list > virtio...@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virtio-fs -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
