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Good point, and I suspect it isn't that hard.  NetBSD is also (finally)
moving to fine-grained locking.  I supsect one could either create a
coda lock and always grab that, or to make locks for each data object
(the name cache is probably what's needed - everything else is per-vnode
and the vnode lock protects most vnode changes).

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