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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locks.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locks.rst index c5ae858b1aac..26429317dbbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locks.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locks.rst @@ -57,16 +57,9 @@ fcntl(), with all the problems that implies. 1.3 Mandatory Locking As A Mount Option --------------------------------------- -Mandatory locking, as described in -'Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst' 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'. -The default is to disallow mandatory locking. The intention is that -mandatory locking only be enabled on a local filesystem as the specific need -arises. +Mandatory locking 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. +Such option was dropped in Kernel v5.14. |