On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:01:50AM -0800, Murali Vilayannur wrote: > Craig, > > > I know that PVFS2 does not support locking and understand the > > benefits of this design. However, I have a question about what > > happens to file writes for contiguous, non-overlapping writes. > > I think Avery has patches to support locking at the file/byte range level. > I am not sure if they are in some private branch though and it is > likely they may > need some additional work to integrate with the VFS...Avery, Rob?
for the curious, that work lives in 'version-lock-actual-branch' Thanks for the detailed answer, Murali! ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
