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From: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:16:28 -0700
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:17:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> The only thing that should be probably resolved is a common API
> for at least the clustered lock manager. Having multiple
> incompatible user space APIs for that would be sad.
As far as userspace dlm apis go, dlmfs already abstracts away a large part
of the dlm interaction, so writing a module against another dlm looks like
it wouldn't be too bad (startup of a lockspace is probably the most
difficult part there).
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
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