[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Backups using commercial products

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Lyle Seaman wrote:

> You could add a mechanism for external lockers, the tricky
> part that I was hinting at is what do you do when the external
> locker goes away without releasing the lock, et cetera.

You can already have multiple fssync clients -- the salvager uses
this when you salvage a single volume with the server online.  It
would not be hard to design a service that allows things not on the
server machine to attach volumes, but I don't see any use in it.

-- Jeff