[Gluster-devel] Improving real world performance by moving files closer to their target workloads
Derek Price
derek at ximbiot.com
Fri May 16 13:33:27 UTC 2008
gordan at bobich.net wrote:
> This would need a change in the handling of how a file is
> locked/accessed. A lock would need to be made on all the nodes that
> could respond with the file. AFR doesn't quite do this, the primary node
> (first one on the AFR list) is the one that acts as the lock server. If
> this could be overcome, then you'd have most of the components you need.
What about a quorum locking solution like DLM provides? I think it
doesn't matter if the server(s) that have copies of the files agree to
the file lock, as long as any server that wants a lock knows to get
approval from the quorum.
Derek
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