The Design and Implementation of a Locking Mechanism for a Distributed Computing Environment

摘要

The need for distributed file systems has been growing for decades to provide clients with efficient and scalable high-performance accesses to stored data. In this paper, we present a distributed locking mechanism that enables multiple nodes to simultaneously write their data to distinct data portions of a file, while providing the consistent view of client cached data, and conclude with an evaluation of the performance of our locking mechanism.