From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <059701c3aa55$ed14a0c0$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] cc linux clusters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:45:59 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 895b0690-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > LM knows a thing or two about this, having spent years in both the sunos, > and irix trenches. i am not convinced; 'coarse' vs ''fine' grained locking is nonsense. if you are gonna lock stuff a) think about it b) do it right. but you knew that.