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1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option
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1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option
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-Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/mandatory.txt' was prior
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-to this release a general configuration option that was valid for all
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-mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the least
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-of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read a
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-file for which a mandatory lock existed.
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+Mandatory locking, as described in 'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory.txt'
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+was prior to this release a general configuration option that was valid for
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+all mounted filesystems. This had a number of inherent dangers, not the
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+least of which was the ability to freeze an NFS server by asking it to read
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+a file for which a mandatory lock existed.
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From this release of the kernel, mandatory locking can be turned on and off
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From this release of the kernel, mandatory locking can be turned on and off
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on a per-filesystem basis, using the mount options 'mand' and 'nomand'.
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on a per-filesystem basis, using the mount options 'mand' and 'nomand'.
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