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