Hi, All: When an application on a cluster node A needs to access a file on a SAN storage, how DLM process the lock request? Should DLM firstly determine whether there already exists a lock resource mapped to the file, by doing the following things in the order 1) looking at the master lock resources on the node A, 2) searching the local copies of lock resources on the node A, 3) searching the lock directory on the node A to find out whether a master lock resource assosicated with the file exists on another node, 4) sending messages to other nodes in the cluster for the location of the master lock resource? I ask this question because from some online articles, it seems that DLM will always search the cluster-wide lock directory across the whole cluster first to find the location of the master lock resource. Can anyone kindly confirm the order of processes that DLM does? Many thanks in advance. Jas ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster