[Gluster-devel] glusterfs file locking
Raghavendra Gowdappa
rgowdapp at redhat.com
Tue Dec 3 04:06:00 UTC 2013
Hi Kane,
You don't have to add the xlator explicitly through cli. The xlator is configured by default on bricks when you create a volume.
regards,
Raghavendra.
----- Original Message -----
> From: "kane" <stef_9k at 163.com>
> To: rxsingh at gmail.com
> Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 8:41:30 AM
> Subject: [Gluster-devel] glusterfs file locking
>
> Hi, Rohit:
>
> I have googled the issue you mailed last year as below:
> ======
> Does Gluster provide POSIX compatible file locking transparently with
> multiple clients simultaneously trying to lock files on a Gluster share
> with the native Gluster client?
>
> A lot of the code in our application framework relies on file locking for
> synchronization. I was running across some errors, and wanted to rule out
> file locking issues – hence this question.
>
> The gluster documentation mentions a features/posix-locks translator that
> should be used for distributed file level locking. This translator can be
> added using the config files as shown in the example at
>
> http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Translators/features/locks.
>
> However, this method of using config files doesn't seem to be available in
> newer versions of Gluster, and I couldn't find an equivalent way of using
> this translator using the command line. Can someone confirm if I need to
> use this translator, and how I could enable it with Gluster 3.3?
> ======
>
> so as I meet this file locking usage in 3.3 too, I want to ask you what did
> you
> deal with the lock issue at last, did the xlator lock useful?
>
> Thanks,
> Kane
>
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