[Linux-cluster] DLM
Patricio Bruna V
pbruna at linuxcenterla.com
Fri Mar 18 13:08:58 UTC 2005
El jue, 17-03-2005 a las 17:02 -0500, Daniel Phillips escribió:
> Hi Patricio,
> Perhaps you meant, how does your program ask for a lock? Or how does
> DLM get a lock from a nonlocal machine? From userspace, you go through
> a library that presents an interface similar to ancient Vaxcluster, and
> later, IBM's OpenDLM. (But somewhat more complex because of the
> hierarchical locks feature and a few other wrinkles.) These API calls
> are translated into socket messages to and from the in-kernel DLM. The
> local DLM consults its lock directory to find out which machine masters
> the lock and requests the lock from that machine, which then tries to
> get the lock based on its knowledge of current holders, if any.
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
Daniel,
thx for the answer, but i have another question.
Its necesary that the programs be build agains or with the dlm api?
because if they need to, i dont see the benefits of dlm.
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