[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-05-14, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> On 5/14/19 9:36 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> Perhaps because no other OS (well, almost all) has a DLM.  At least that 
>> I'm aware of.
>
> Linux has a distributed lock manager in kernel for the GFS2 file system.
>

For those of you who has never looked at it, reading the libdlm
documentation is very interesting. Here's the dlm_lock() call:

https://linux.die.net/man/3/dlm_lock

And no, you are not looking at a VMS documentation page by mistake.
That really is a Linux man page. :-)

BTW, here's the overview page for libdlm:

https://linux.die.net/man/3/libdlm

Simon.

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