[dcmf] [PATCH 1/1] Issue 4362: Honor the romio_ds_write and romio_ds_read hints.

[Rob Ross]

My guess is that it's the "lowest common denominator", that it works  
for both GPFS (albeit with unnecessary locking calls) and for NFS,  
which are the two configurations for which IBM is interested.

Rob

On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Bob Cernohous wrote:

>
> robl at mcs.anl.gov (Robert Latham) wrote on 02/08/2008 04:22:17 PM:
>
> >
> > Do you know why ad_bgl is based off of ad_nfs and not ad_ufs?  The
> > aggressive locking in ad_nfs is an attempt to flush client-side
> > caches, but shouldn't be needed for other file systems.
>
> No, sorry.  I'm pretty new to romio.  I'll try to find some answers
> (and educate myself on  
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