Re: Choosing distributed filesystem

[Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>]

Karl Kopper wrote:
> 

> We are doing locking with NFS (the fcntl calls from the application cause
> the Linux kernel to use statd/lockd to talk to the NAS server). I just
> wouldn't do locking over a WAN.

I missed the WAN bit. So you were referring to some sort of file system
(distributed ?, eg AFS) spread over a WAN? I had forgotten that some
distributed file systems aren't local only.

Joe


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