Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:24:51 -0700 | From | Tim Bird <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features |
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J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:52:37PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> Le Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:38:48 -0400, >> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> a écrit : >> >>> Out of curiosity, why does the nfs client need disabling, but not >>> nfsd, gfs2, fuse, etc.? >> Then also need disabling. > > OK by me, but again, why exactly? Since you're replacing the locking > calls they used by stubs that just return errors, in theory nfs, nfsd, > gfs2, and the rest should still compile and run, just without locking > support, right?
I think so, but haven't tested this myself.
However, I would still be inclined to NOT add the extra config dependencies. Just my 2 cents. -- Tim
============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America =============================
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