On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:42 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
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>  The one thing I suspect is *not* a really serious problem here is the
>  reported LTP failure, since probably the only user of this is Samba,
>  which probably doesn't do a lot of tmpfs exports, and in any case it can
>  probably soldier on (if with degraded performance--how badly I don't
>  know) without getting the write lease it wants.

i'm not sure i follow.  the reported problem is that file locking does
not work on tmpfs/ramfs storage.  a not terribly uncommon scenario is
to use tmpfs on /tmp (or similar location) and have file locking not
work at all.  so programs that use file locking or scripts that
leverage the flock utility from the util-linux package break.
-mike
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