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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-cluster@redhat.com, wim.coekaerts@oracle.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:00:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050904050026.GU8684@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509040051.11095.phillips@istop.com>

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:51:10AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Clearly, I ought to have asked why dlmfs can't be done by configfs.  It is the 
> same paradigm: drive the kernel logic from user-initiated vfs methods.  You 
> already have nearly all the right methods in nearly all the right places.

	configfs, like sysfs, does not support ->open() or ->release()
callbacks.  And it shouldn't.  The point is to hide the complexity and
make it easier to plug into.  
	A client object should not ever have to know or care that it is
being controlled by a filesystem.  It only knows that it has a tree of
items with attributes that can be set or shown.

Joel


-- 

"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going
 to find you anyway."
	- Paul "Bear" Bryant

Joel Becker
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	ak@suse.de, linux-cluster@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: GFS, what's remaining
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:00:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050904050026.GU8684@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509040051.11095.phillips@istop.com>

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:51:10AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Clearly, I ought to have asked why dlmfs can't be done by configfs.  It is the 
> same paradigm: drive the kernel logic from user-initiated vfs methods.  You 
> already have nearly all the right methods in nearly all the right places.

	configfs, like sysfs, does not support ->open() or ->release()
callbacks.  And it shouldn't.  The point is to hide the complexity and
make it easier to plug into.  
	A client object should not ever have to know or care that it is
being controlled by a filesystem.  It only knows that it has a tree of
items with attributes that can be set or shown.

Joel


-- 

"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going
 to find you anyway."
	- Paul "Bear" Bryant

Joel Becker
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-04  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 158+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 10:46 GFS, what's remaining David Teigland
2005-09-01 10:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-01 10:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-01 10:59   ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-01 14:49   ` Alan Cox
2005-09-01 14:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-01 15:28       ` Alan Cox
2005-09-01 15:28         ` Alan Cox
2005-09-01 15:11         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-01 17:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-02  7:04           ` David Teigland
2005-09-01 17:23     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-01 17:23       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-01 20:21     ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-01 20:21       ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-02 21:17       ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-02 23:03         ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-03  0:16         ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-03  0:16           ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-03  6:42           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-03  6:42             ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-03  6:46             ` [Linux-cluster] " Wim Coekaerts
2005-09-03  6:46               ` Wim Coekaerts
2005-09-03 22:21               ` [Linux-cluster] " Daniel Phillips
2005-09-03 22:21                 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  1:09                 ` [Linux-cluster] " Joel Becker
2005-09-04  1:32                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  1:32                     ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  3:06                     ` [Linux-cluster] " Joel Becker
2005-09-04  3:06                       ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:22                       ` [Linux-cluster] " Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  4:30                         ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:51                           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  4:51                             ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  5:00                             ` Joel Becker [this message]
2005-09-04  5:00                               ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  5:52                               ` [Linux-cluster] " Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  5:56                                 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:46                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  4:58                           ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  5:41                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  5:41                               ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  5:49                               ` [Linux-cluster] " Joel Becker
2005-09-04  5:49                                 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-05  4:30                               ` [Linux-cluster] " David Teigland
2005-09-05  4:30                                 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  8:54                                 ` [Linux-cluster] " Andrew Morton
2005-09-05  9:24                                   ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  9:24                                     ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  9:19                                     ` [Linux-cluster] " Andrew Morton
2005-09-05  9:30                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-05  9:48                                       ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 12:21                                       ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 12:21                                         ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 19:53                                         ` [Linux-cluster] " Andrew Morton
2005-09-05 23:20                                           ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 23:20                                             ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 23:06                                             ` [Linux-cluster] " Andrew Morton
2005-09-05 23:06                                               ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-14  9:01                                         ` [Linux-cluster] " Patrick Caulfield
2005-09-14  9:46                                           ` Antonio Vargas
2005-09-05 19:11                                     ` kurt.hackel
2005-09-04  6:10                           ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-04  7:23                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  8:17                               ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-04  8:37                                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  8:37                                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  6:40                           ` [Linux-cluster] " Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  7:28                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  7:28                               ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  8:01                               ` [Linux-cluster] " Joel Becker
2005-09-04  8:18                                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  9:11                                   ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  9:11                                     ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  9:18                                     ` [Linux-cluster] " Andrew Morton
2005-09-04  9:39                                       ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  9:39                                         ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 18:03                                     ` [Linux-cluster] " Hua Zhong
2005-09-04 19:51                               ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 19:51                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04  7:12                           ` Hua Zhong
2005-09-04  8:37                           ` [Linux-cluster] " Alan Cox
2005-09-04  8:37                             ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 23:32                             ` [Linux-cluster] " Joel Becker
2005-09-05 23:32                               ` Joel Becker
2005-09-03  5:57         ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-03  5:57           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-05 14:14           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-05 14:14             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-05 15:49             ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-05 16:18               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06  0:57                 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06  2:03                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06  4:02                     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06  4:07                       ` GFS, what's remainingh Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06  4:58                         ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06  4:58                           ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06  5:05                           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06  6:48                             ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06  6:55                               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06  7:18                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06  7:18                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 14:31                                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 13:42                               ` Alan Cox
2005-09-06 13:42                                 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-03  7:06         ` GFS, what's remaining Wim Coekaerts
2005-09-03  7:06           ` Wim Coekaerts
2005-09-03  7:27           ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-09-05 14:16             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-05 20:24               ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-09-05 20:53                 ` Kurt Hackel
2005-09-05 23:37                 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-06  5:24                   ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 12:55         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-09-03  5:18       ` David Teigland
2005-09-03  6:14         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-03  6:14           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-03  6:42           ` D. Hazelton
2005-09-03 10:35           ` David Teigland
2005-09-03 20:56             ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-03 20:56               ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 20:33         ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-04 22:18           ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 22:18             ` Joel Becker
2005-09-05  5:54           ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-05  7:09             ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-05 14:07               ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-05  8:27             ` real read-only [was Re: GFS, what's remaining] Pavel Machek
2005-09-05 14:03               ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-05 10:44           ` [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-09-05 10:44             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-09-05 16:41             ` Greg Freemyer
2005-09-01 11:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-01 11:35   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-02  9:44   ` David Teigland
2005-09-02 11:46     ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-02 11:46       ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-03  5:28     ` Greg KH
2005-09-05  3:47       ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  3:47         ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  8:58         ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-05  9:18           ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  9:18             ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  5:43   ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  5:43     ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  6:32     ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-05  7:55       ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  7:55         ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  8:00         ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-05  8:00           ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-10 10:11     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-05  6:29   ` David Teigland
2005-09-05  6:29     ` David Teigland
2005-09-08  5:41   ` David Teigland
2005-09-08  5:41     ` David Teigland
2005-09-01 12:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-01 17:27 ` Daniel Phillips
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-01 18:47 [Linux-cluster] " Hua Zhong (hzhong)

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