From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964872AbVIFNWJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:22:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964869AbVIFNWJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:22:09 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47005 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964868AbVIFNWH (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:22:07 -0400 Subject: Re: GFS, what's remainingh From: Alan Cox To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars Marowsky-Bree , Andi Kleen , linux clustering , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200509060248.47433.phillips@istop.com> References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <200509060058.44934.phillips@istop.com> <200509060005.59578.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <200509060248.47433.phillips@istop.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:42:29 +0100 Message-Id: <1126014150.22131.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2005-09-06 at 02:48 -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:05, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > do you think it is a bit premature to dismiss something even without > > ever seeing the code? > > You told me you are using a dlm for a single-node application, is there > anything more I need to know? That's standard practice for many non-Unix operating systems. It means your code supports failover without much additional work and it provides all the functionality for locks on a single node too From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: GFS, what's remainingh Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:42:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1126014150.22131.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <200509060058.44934.phillips@istop.com> <200509060005.59578.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <200509060248.47433.phillips@istop.com> Reply-To: linux clustering Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux clustering , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Daniel Phillips In-Reply-To: <200509060248.47433.phillips@istop.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-cluster-bounces@redhat.com List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2005-09-06 at 02:48 -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:05, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > do you think it is a bit premature to dismiss something even without > > ever seeing the code? > > You told me you are using a dlm for a single-node application, is there > anything more I need to know? That's standard practice for many non-Unix operating systems. It means your code supports failover without much additional work and it provides all the functionality for locks on a single node too