In article <m0xzU5P-001DCmC@valiant.koehntopp.de> you write:
>[...]
>For certain applications (multiple concurrent accesses on very
>large files as generated by database applications) it can be
>desireable to support finer grained locks than on inode level.
>[...]
Have a look at the fcntl(2) man page. I think Linux has already
supported POSIX style locks on parts of files for a long time (since
when the version numbers begun with 1., at least) :-)
But I think the thread was about the in kernel locking mechanisms
to protect transactions in the filesystem implementation from concurrent
operations.
Regards, Felix.
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