Avoid mandatory locks? Really? According to linux/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 22:08, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> That may be an overstatement.  Most of the complaints are about DoS attacks
> and/or
> distributed systems.  That's pretty awful, and means the locking is not
> scaleable, but

alright...maybe that's why, e.g in distributed fs such as GFS, we need
(gfs) lockd or something like that...ok, now I could guess, that's due
to some of POSIX lock weaknesses.. CMIIW
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