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  1. Bug #974664
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 974664

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In , Jeff (jeff-redhat-bugs) wrote :

By default, nfs.ko does flock() emulation on top of POSIX locks.

If you find that programs that use flock don't work properly on top of NFS, you can mount with local_lock=flock and that will disable that behavior. Of course, no other client will be aware of flock locks at that point...