Advisory locking is when the operating system keeps track of which files have been locked by which process, but does not prevent a process from writing to a file that is locked by another process. Bec...Advisory locking is when the operating system keeps track of which files have been locked by which process, but does not prevent a process from writing to a file that is locked by another process. Because of differences between the NFS and SMB file locks, an NFS client might fail to access a file previously opened by an SMB application. For more instances of what happens when an NFS client attempts to access a file locked by an SMB application, please see About file locking between protocols.
