On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 04:12:17PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Rather than just change the VOP_LOCK protocol to lock bottom up, I'd
> rather we change the vnode lock interface so that all vnodes point to the
> relevant struct lock for the node. For stacked fs's, upper vnodes would
> point to the struct lock for the lower vnode. Thus if we have multiple
> layers stacked on each other, whenever any one node gets locked, they all
> are locked.

What about for fan-in and fan-out?

If you have one node up top that fans out to multiple nodes on the bottom
then where does the lock live? 

How would you handle, say, a mirroring layer or perhaps a generic 
(fs-independent) ACL layer?

What about cycles in the layering?
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