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On 5 Mar 2008, at 09:04, Doug Rabson wrote:

> Over the last couple of months, I have been working on a complete re- 
> implementation of the NFS Lock Manager. The new NLM is designed to  
> run in the kernel environment and uses the kernel's fcntl lock  
> infrastructure to store its state.

I should also point out that this work has been sponsored by Isilon  
Systems. Special thanks also should go to Alfred Perlstein for  
arranging that sponsorship.


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