On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Ahmad Humayun wrote:
Do you any reason why? Is it because only one thread can write to a specificfile in the hdfs at a single time....and multiple simultaneous readersdoesn't cause any problem...hence locks make no sense in this situation???
Locks were removed because they didn't provide any notification when your lock was broken. Therefore, the interface didn't actually provide you any guarantees of exclusiveness.
-- Owen
