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Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files

Date 2013-09-23 09:34 +0200
From David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files
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On 21/09/13 15:00, Chris Davies wrote:
> Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> wrote:
>> This feels like rsync is doing exclusive access to the concerned files, 
>> to prevent shooting at a moving target.

That would sound right - except that I agree with Chris' point below
that rsync does not lock files in any way.  (I've often seen large
rsyncs end with a message saying that some files changed during the
rsync run.)

> 
> I've never seen rsync grab exclusive access to files. It could more likely
> occur over SMB/CIFS, which provides file locking by default, but not
> over NFS.
> 
> Chris
> 

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NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-20 16:07 +0200
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-09-20 15:15 +0000
    Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 09:28 +0200
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 16:54 +0100
    Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 09:44 +0200
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 11:51 +0200
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-09-27 10:40 +0100
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-09-20 20:37 +0300
    Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-09-21 14:00 +0100
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-09-21 18:18 +0300
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 09:34 +0200
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-10-10 16:28 +0200

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