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Re:Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. super... by eklavya on Thursday December 30, 2021 @05:37AM (#29735548)
From what I know, so far linux doesn't have an exclusive lock capability on a file, windows does however. So in linux you can't mark a file in exclusive possession of a process.
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Re:Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. super... by eklavya on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:25AM (#29736157)
Down voters should read up on the state of mandatory locking in Linux and what conditions need to be met and how reliable it is.
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