From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261221AbUBVKfk (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:35:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261223AbUBVKfj (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:35:39 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:2212 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261221AbUBVKfi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 05:35:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:37:31 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: GFS requirements (was: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range) Message-ID: <20040222103731.GA19437@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <200402202216.09908.phillips@arcor.de> <20040221141724.GH6280@marowsky-bree.de> <200402211409.13203.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200402211409.13203.phillips@arcor.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2004-02-21T14:09:13, Daniel Phillips said: > But the one true clustering infrastructure hasn't been developed yet. Yes. > from being able to define that sensibly now. It's better to implement > exactly what a given DFS needs for the time being. Right. > > So, how does OpenGFS/GFS achieve the communication? How does it > > interact with the infrastructure (which, I infere from your above > > comments, is meant to reside in user-space)? > It's done both ways, actually. No new kernel hooks are used in either > case. That doesn't answer my question how you are doing the user-space / kernel communication ;-) And will the user-space infrastructure to go with GFS be open source too? Questions over questions. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett