I'm not actually. They both share the commonality of non-destructive updates, which seems to be a recently pervasive technique of performing unsynchronized para

I'm not actually. They both share the commonality of non-destructive updates, which seems to be a recently pervasive technique of performing unsynchronized parallel work. I do grant that the techniques are not identical, though. Certainly GFS has at least minor locking so that it can grab the current high water mark.