exclusive locking. Disabling the ``exclusive-lock`` feature will negatively
affect the performance of some operations.
-In order to ensure proper exclusive locking operations, any client using an RBD
-image whose ``exclusive-lock`` feature is enabled must have a CephX identity
-whose capabilities include ``profile rbd``.
-
Exclusive locking is mostly transparent to the user.
#. Whenever any ``librbd`` client process or kernel RBD client
Blocklisting is thus a form of storage-level resource `fencing`_.
-In order for blocklisting to work, the client must have the ``osd
-blocklist`` capability. This capability is included in the ``profile
-rbd`` capability profile, which should be set generally on all Ceph
-:ref:`client identities <user-management>` using RBD.
+.. note::
+ In order for blocklisting to work, the client must have the ``osd
+ blocklist`` capability. This capability is included in the ``profile
+ rbd`` capability profile, which should be set generally on all Ceph
+ :ref:`client identities <user-management>` using RBD.
.. _fencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_(computing)