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

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2004-10-08T14:32:09, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com> wrote:

>   3. Concurrent writes, high latency for data packets.
>     The problem now is that N2 does can not detect that this was
>     a concurrent write, since it got the ACK before the conflicting
>     data packets comes in. 

Uhm. I don't see how this can be a problem.

In this case, one write has logically happened before the other, and
from they don't overlap - the second write will simply wipe out the
first one, which seems fine?

>   5. New write while processing a write from the peer.

Sounds just like case 1.


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

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