Re: Running several instances of an fs server...

[Niels Möller]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
> > I should add that of course it is technically possible to implement a much
> > more complex protocol that allows a filesystem that starts up to find out
> > that the device (really: storage) is currently used by another filesystem of
> 
> Um, Marcus, this "much more complex protocol" is just flock.

Can you do flock on an arbitrary store? I agree that sounds like a
nice way to cooperate for one-process-at-a-time access to the store.

/Niels