I don't believe it makes any difference. We've used both on a very big site.
The massive advantage, for me, is that it provides full control/visibility of the locks if anything bad happens. Working with file locks is much trickier - especially if they're on some remote NFS server.
The massive advantage, for me, is that it provides full control/visibility of the locks if anything bad happens. Working with file locks is much trickier - especially if they're on some remote NFS server.