On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Mark Crispin wrote:
> I doubt very much that NFS 4 fixes the problems, which are far deeper than
> locking issues. You also have to have synchronization of inode and data
> state across all clients, which requires a token-passing network
> filesystem.
>
> To my knowledge, TOPS-20 and VAX/VMS were the only operating systems which
> ever implemented a token-passing network filesystem.
>
> -- Mark --
DCE-DFS also has a token-passing network filesystem. It handles concurrent
reads/writers to a filesystem object and is implemented in a vender
independent fasion (there is even an OpenDCE project ;).
Dave
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