Locality and caching in parallel/distributed file systems

Michael Stein mas at ucla.edu
Tue Dec 3 22:24:37 PST 2002


> concurrent writes are always nontrivial;

Yes, nontrivial.

I'm not even sure what "concurrent" means in a distributed environment.

What's the definition of "first" if things aren't happening at the
same place?



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