load balancing question

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:17:30PM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Right, a distributed file system should support distributed locking, and 
> the rate of logons should not be that high that it stretches the ability 
> of the DFS to lock and unlock the file.

The point is not to make that work, this could be doable. The point is to make
that *REALLY* fast. All that Solaris fcntl blurb that is popping up here is
about a subobtimal fcntl implementation. Samba performance completely dies when
fcntl is not lightning fast.

Volker
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