Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:11:27 +0100 (CET) | From | (Kristian Koehntopp) | Subject | Re: threaded FS-drivers |
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In netuse.lists.linux-kernel you write: >There are a few places where concurrent access is not desirable, Linux >supports locks on the inode level and on the superblock level for >these cases.
For certain applications (multiple concurrent accesses on very large files as generated by database applications) it can be desireable to support finer grained locks than on inode level. Such locks would allow for concurrent writes into the same file iff these writes do not overlap.
Silicon Graphics XFS does this.
Kristian
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