[Drbd-dev] How Locking in GFS works...

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Mon Oct 4 15:01:58 CEST 2004


On 2004-10-04T14:56:21, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com> wrote:

> This is intended as food for thought on how we should design our
> support for shared disk file systems.

I'm still not sure what kind of special support you need. The only
guarantee you need to provide is that after a barrier all reads on all
nodes return the same data for those blocks affected by the flush.

The shared disk file system itself will take care of issueing
appropriate barrier and flushing the OS caches.

Am I missing something? ;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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