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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv
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"Andrew R. Reiter" wrote:
> :He could also maintain a local cache of this per vnode, basically
> :maintain a mirror of the lock list locally in order to see if a remote
> :op must be done.
> 
> Isn't this sorta like coda?

Lock cache, not data cache.

It's "sort of like":

http://www.blackflag.ru/patches/nfs-client-and-server-locking-4.5-STABLE-20020312.diff

-- Terry

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