From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Goldwyn Rodrigues Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:58:40 -0500 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 3/7] Differentiate between no_controld and with_controld In-Reply-To: <20131002094907.GS20001@suse.de> References: <20130927170748.GA11716@shrek.lan> <20131002094907.GS20001@suse.de> Message-ID: <524CCF50.5020501@suse.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On 10/02/2013 04:49 AM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2013-09-27T12:07:53, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > >> This is done primarily for backward compatibility. I hope we do >> away with this sooner than later ;) > > I'd actually be quite happy if we could do away with this directly. > > Users that want to remain on an older user-space code base can always > revert this or stick to a stable long-term kernel. That may be an > unpopular opinion ;-) > > The relevant GFS2 commit seems to be > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/gfs2?id=e0c2a9aa1e68455dc3439e95d85cabcaff073666 > > Just to be complete, the DLM recovery callbacks were introduced in this commit http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/gfs2?id=60f98d1839376d30e13f3e452dce2433fad3060e GFS2 also supports the older controld using DFL_NO_DLM_OPS flag set in the lockspace structure. While I would also like the controld to be done away with: from a maintenance perspective. -- Goldwyn