What is Distributed Lock Service (or Server)? When it needs to be used?
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Often called a Distributed Lock Manager, it's a way for distributed applications to control access to shared resources. A typical example would be a cluster of computers that present what seems to be a single unified file system, even though behind the scenes they are sharing a collection of file systems. Machines in the cluster would need a (distributed) lock in order to make changes to a file, to prevent race conditions.
Chris Welsh
2009-11-13 12:13:03
Are any significant open source distributed lock manager that worth looking?
Vadi
2009-11-14 10:45:50
see thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1059580/distributed-lock-service
Chris Welsh
2009-11-16 08:32:04