Re: AMQ-4694: add support for flock-based shared lock file

[Robert Davies]

That's awesome! 
On 27 Aug 2013, at 15:37, "Harris, Carl" <cehar...@vt.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I just opened AMQ-4694 that contains a patch to add optional support for 
> native flock (2) shared lock files.  This will allow the use of Shared File 
> System Master/Slave on any OCFS2 file system that supports cluster-aware 
> locks.
> 
> The implementation utilizes native calls to the underlying standard C 
> library, using JNA to avoid any of the build complications that would result 
> from direct use of JNI.
> 
> The patch can be applied cleanly to the current trunk or tags/activemq-5.8.0.
> 
> I applied the patch to a copy of the 5.8.0 source and am now running my 
> broker instances using shared filesystem master/slave on my OCFS2-based 
> cluster.
> 
> Comments, feedback, criticism welcome.
> 
> carl