JFFS (2) - File locking

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Jul 16 10:12:11 EDT 2001


dave.mackay at monitoreurope.com said:
>  Currently on Ext2 our program uses the system call lockf() which
> works well, however we read with interest that JFFS does not support
> hard links and may have a problem with this call!!? Any comments?  

File locking doesn't involve the underlying filesystem, I believe - at 
least not for non-networked file systems. File locking on JFFS and JFFS2 
should just work.

Hard links are a completely separate issue. JFFS doesn't support them. 
JFFS2 does.

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dwmw2






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