Luckily, these errors occurred so infrequently that the clients recovered without any problems. Like a common packet collision on a network, such write errors are relatively harmless as long as they are rare. These errors are most commonly generated from an opportunistic lock in which multiple clients are trying to commit writes to the same file. When this error occurs, the client is required to retry the write. Opportunistic file locking is a function of the file-server software.
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