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<strong>Project</strong> 6<br />

Concurrent Access<br />

Alternative approaches ∗ : multi-read / single-write<br />

Concurrency happens at the “data blocks” level.<br />

Multiple individuals may hold the same file.<br />

Opening for writing always succeeds.<br />

At most one writer works simultaneously.<br />

Multi-block atomicity: let’s throw the end-to-end<br />

argument out the window.<br />

∗ Alternative, as in we are not grading to these specifications

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