Speaker
Matt W. Benjamin, Linuxbox.com
Title
Design and implementation of AFS byte-range file locking
Abstract
The talk will review the AFS byte-range file locks draft specification,
highlighting key features and design decisions, and its relationship to
extended callback information. Next the talk will look the current draft
implementation in the OpenAFS file server and Unix cache manager. The
talk will cover cache consistency requirements, share reservations (a
semantic extension introduced to better support mixed platform
environments), asynchronous lock issue (polling avoidance), some details
of the internal lock management design, and the current mechanisms for
lock expiration and recovery.
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