Re: filesystem locking?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:24:07PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I got this error running VMware on XFS (see attached jpg).
> > 
> > if xfs does support the file locking semantics that vmware wants (which I
> > assume), we should let them know so they can include xfs awareness in
> > their next release...
> > 
> > -tduffy
> > 
> 
> Hmm, so you think they probe the filesystem type and then decide they
> do not know what it can do if they do not recognize the type? They could
> try a couple of tests to see what works, even different revisions of 
> the same filesystem could have different feature sets.

They indeed do that. Another software that also does this unfortuate thing
is the Arkeia backup client.


-Andi