NFSv4, anyone?

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting Nikola Milutinovic <alokin1 at yahoo.com>:
>
> Now, one question that is a bit off topic, why is NFSv4 locking so   
> bad? Couldn't they (Powers that Be) fix it, so it behaves like a   
> normal (albeit, networked) file system?
>

As far as i know NFSv4 has the locking support, but nobody has tested  
it with cyrus till know. All shared filesystems have to deal with the  
problem that they need to cache informations to be fast and to get all  
changes to keep consistent.




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