[KLUG Members] Re: Transactional filesystems?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Peter Buxton <peter@killdevil.org>:
> 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.

Er, not the same.  SMB oplocks simply rely on the "client" to do the coherency.
As a result, the rate of corruptions are intolerable.


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