Nigel Stewart wrote:
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> It works in Windows NT, I'm going to try it
> on Linux....  But does anyone have a general
> impression whether this is going to work
> across network filesystems: Windows, Novell,
> NFS?

Synchronization over NFS is a tricky subject. I am by far no expert, but
I remember several issues with NFS. And synch was one of those.
> 
> Also, is there a tider way to do this?
> A weakness in the algorithm is that if
> the file is missing, no process will be
> able to lock the resource.  Therefore,
> I'm not happy with the robustness of
> this particular algorithm.
> 

The most important point is, that it propably scales not well enough. It
may scale better than the pvm approach, because you have a star as
topology, but the load on the server will be pretty high pretty soon.
My idea would be to really develop a distributed rendering model, with
hand tuned topology, e.g. a tree.
I will eventually look at this, but currently I am in compiling almost
everything else but povray. (XFree was yesterday, next is gnome)

Axel

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