Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:35:24 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, FreeBSD Committers <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <XFMail.990823153524.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990823152849.H83273@freebie.lemis.com>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 23-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > I'm a little surprised that there's any objection to the concept of > mandatory locking. In transaction processing, locking is not > optional, and if any process at all can access a file or set of files > without locking, you can't guarantee the database integrity. Other > OSs have used mandatory locking for decades, and System V has it too. > So far I haven't seen any arguments, let alone valid ones, against > having it in FreeBSD. I think its a good idea, and hey if people object it can always be an option like -> option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING Phew, that was tough. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN8DkpFbYW/HEoF9pAQHXIgP+Msx/yRSUg+W2htUKS3fsGjg6CDwDdhmN eQIugDYu62mXzjgtqnhvr4mTh3Hft98arr3f9zHK6o/NorXISfLHr/FZ47fGLaEC W+KeK91mVoljFEv9+dWvA6gpK/M9wYuOJEfpUcKNnxB0Q3wSGvocrn8UngiJtptw I+QFMCllquQ= =U2xH -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.p0.FreeBSD:990823153524:19113=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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