From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267940AbUHPUYx (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:24:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267941AbUHPUYw (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:24:52 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:40345 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267940AbUHPUYg (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:24:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:26:02 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Cc: Daniel Phillips , "Walker, Bruce J" , Discussion of clustering software components including GFS , Linux Kernel Mailing List , opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, opengfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net, opendlm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!! Message-ID: <20040816192602.GA467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <3689AF909D816446BA505D21F1461AE4C750E6@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> <200408011330.01848.phillips@istop.com> <410D2949.20503@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <410D2949.20503@backtobasicsmgmt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >I wonder if device-mapper (slightly hacked) wouldn't be a better > >approach for 2.6+. > > It appeared from the original posting that their "cluster-wide devfs" > actually supported all types of device nodes, not just block devices. > I don't know whether accessing a character device on another node > would ever be useful, but certainly using device-mapper wouldn't help > for that case. Remote character devices seem extremely usefull to me... mpg456 --device /dev/kitchen/dsp cat /dev/roof/dsp > /dev/laptop/dsp cat picture-to-scare-pigeons.raw > /dev/roof/fb0 X --device=/dev/livingroom/fb0 .... Okay, it will probably take a while until SSI cluster is the right tool to network your home :-). Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms