On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:35:33AM -0700, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> For cluster and distributed file systems we actually need a somewhat
> different approach to locking. The best thing to have would be for the FS
> to know that a lock will be needed and for what operation at lookup time.
For locking-used-to-guarantee-cluster-operation, yes. I think that's
a completely different thing to applications-locking-files and it's
a mistake to try to treat the two as one.
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