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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