From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Allan Graves <allan.graves@oracle.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] os_lock_file removal
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:15:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050624211533.GA10972@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BC5CD9.2080005@oracle.com>
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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2005-06-24 19:19 [uml-devel] os_lock_file removal Allan Graves
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