[KLUG Members] Transactional filesystems?

[Peter Buxton]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 02:10:33PM -0500, Justin Buist wrote:

> I'm starting to realize that a distributed filesystem that allows
> multiple updaters just might actually have some use in the world.
> After playing with SQL Server's replicatoin features I'm pretty geeked
> on the idea now.  I'm sort of wondering -why- this doesn't really
> exist at the FS layer to tell you the truth.  

> Is there any interest in something like this, or does something like
> it already exist and I've just never heard of it?

Not to give it to the opposition, and not that *nix doesn't have its own
candidates, but NT/Samba oplocks. As I understand it, it is meant to be
able to pass file changes back and forth between two users with the same
file open.

I have no information as to how well this works with something like a
CAD file.

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