linked lists are protected across processes with 1-byte fcntl locks on the
starting pointer of the linked list representing a hash value.
-The external locking API of tdb allows to lock individual records. Instead of
+The external locking API of tdb allows one to lock individual records. Instead of
really locking individual records, the tdb API locks a complete linked list
with a fcntl lock.
-The external locking API of tdb also allows to lock the complete database, and
+The external locking API of tdb also allows one to lock the complete database, and
ctdb uses this facility to freeze databases during a recovery. While the
so-called allrecord lock is held, all linked lists and all individual records
are frozen alltogether. Tdb achieves this by locking the complete file range