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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