Re: Network file system for "exclusive use" by one client only

Peter Ross <petrosssit@gmail.com> writes:

Instead it would be good enough to do locking on the client side and write a journal which can be send to the file server.

Does locking *ever* work properly on a network filesystem? On sshfs (SFTP) it's not implemented. On AFS it's "advisory", i.e. clients can ignore it. On Samba3/4 I usually have to set it somewhere between "off" and "more off" to appease MS Office (& LO). What I've seen of rpc.statd (NFSv3) looks pretty hinkey, too.