On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:19:53PM -0400, Allan Graves wrote:
> Hi guys.  I'm working on developing a cluster file system and I'd like 
> to simulate concurrent shared storage access using uml and disk files.  
> I traced down the file locking, and it seems that (assuming I have a 
> cluster file system that keeps things up to date in the metadata of the 
> filesystem) if I remove this function I should be able to have more than 
> 1 instance accessing storage at the same time.  

Feel free to remove it if you personally guarantee that you will not run
two UMLs on the same host file without using a clusterfs.

It's purely a safety measure - if you're doing development using scratch
filesystems, it's not really benefitting you.

                                Jeff


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