[OmniOS-discuss] NFS Datastore vmware esxi failover

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:29:20 -0600
Matt Weiss <mweiss at cimlbr.com> wrote:

> I thought VMWare does not do NFS locking, but uses its own custom lock mechanism with .lck files?
> 
It is the NFS protocol itself which does this to guaranty atomic move,
copy, and rename. And what is worse is that these locks resides in
kernel space which means no user space application can release these
locks. Releasing locks for a disappeared NFS process will in worst case
require a reboot.

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