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

[Hartmut Reuter]

Matt W. Benjamin wrote:
> Hi Hartmut,
> 
> Does using GetODSDlocation and StoreMini as begin/end I/O RPCs allow
> use of an opaque identifier to refer to an I/O transaction?
> 
> Matt
> 

As Felix already said: allowing only one write at a time makes it
unnecessary to have an identifier for the transaction. For the error
log, however, I would keep the IP-address in the structure so that in
case of problems you later can find out what happened.

Hartmut
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