On Monday 04 December 2006 20:21, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > 2) NFS provides persistent storage. > > > > To me this sounds like a chicken and an egg problem. It > > both depends and provides this at the same time :/. But > > hey, if it's supposed to work then OK. > > ??? Locking depends on persistent storage, but persistent storage never > depended on locking.
Except for the fact that to be able to mount anything RW you generally _want_ to have locks. And can't have locks without the mount. Not that it wouldn't work, it's just that I would not do it [for obvious reasons]. > 2) No. The problem of client crashes was fixed in NFSv4 with the > addition of lease-based locks. This was NFSv3 system, so that would still be an issue. -- // Janne - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
