Ok there are two threads on this and I am trying to wrap my head around it. So a simple 2 server, 2 client, client side afr setup. The clients at the SAME time do: client1 # echo "one" > file.txt client2 # echo "two" > file.txt Are the threads regarding this and the conclusion at this point saying that this is safe or not? Are we going to end up with server1 having "one" and server2 having "two" or vice versa or the chance of, because there is no "locking "mechanism" to know that two writes are happening at the same time? Should one or the other happen first, I would think either two would be written on both and then one, or the other way around? Are we saying this is not true?