[AFS3-std] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] convergence of RxOSD, Extended Call Backs, Byte Range Locking, etc.

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi Jeff,

I agree with you.  I should not have implied this.  I think some variation on the begin/end transactional style Tom elaborated is the same notion as the "reservation-based" model I have considered would be necessary to provide stronger semantics in general, but certainly also on OSDs.

Matt

----- "Jeffrey Altman" <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:

> Matt:
> 
> I disagree with you that it is possible to negotiate the semantics of
> the meaning of a data version (DV) within the AFS protocol.  If a DV
> was
> a value that only had meaning within the confines of the CM->FS
> communication I would agree with you, but it doesn't. 
-- 

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