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PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Locks and concurrency

OneFS includes a distributed lock manager that orchestrates locks on data across all the nodes in a cluster.

The lock manager grants locks for the file system, byte ranges, and protocols, including SMB share-mode locks and NFS advisory locks. OneFS also supports SMB opportunistic locks.

Because OneFS distributes the lock manager across all the nodes, any node can act as a lock coordinator. When a thread from a node requests a lock, the lock manager's hashing algorithm typically assigns the coordinator role to a different node. The coordinator allocates a shared lock or an exclusive lock, depending on the type of request. A shared lock allows users to share a file simultaneously, typically for read operations. An exclusive lock allows only one user to access a file, typically for write operations.


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