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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: GFS, what's remainingh
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:42:29 +0100
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On Maw, 2005-09-06 at 02:48 -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:05, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > do you think it is a bit premature to dismiss something even without
> > ever seeing the code?
> 
> You told me you are using a dlm for a single-node application, is there 
> anything more I need to know?

That's standard practice for many non-Unix operating systems. It means
your code supports failover without much additional work and it provides
all the functionality for locks on a single node too