[Gluster-users] lock xlator question

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Lock translator cleans up all locks held by a client when it disconnects. It
is the client's responsibility to re-acquire locks which it had held before
disconnection.

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Cheng Shao <zchshao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just want to understand how the lock xlator handles client failures.
> Say one client uses fcntl() to lock a file for write using mandatory
> lock, and later it crashes. Is there a lock expiration in lock xlator
> to deal with this situation so that others can lock the file later on?
> Or everybody is pretty much locked out?
>
> thanks,
> - cheng
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