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Merge pull request #1797 from bgrabar/glossary-item
Add an entry for "lock" to the glossary.
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LineString in MongoDB, see
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:ref:`geospatial-indexes-store-geojson`.
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lock
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MongoDB uses locks to ensure :doc:`concurrency </faq/concurrency>`.
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MongoDB uses both :term:`read locks <read lock>` and :term:`write
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locks <write lock>`. For more information, see
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:ref:`faq-concurrency-locking`.
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LVM
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Logical volume manager. LVM is a program that abstracts disk
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images from physical devices and provides a number of raw disk

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