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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:54:08 -0700
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David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> wrote:
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>  We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device.
>

inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight syscall
interface.

How fat is the dlm interface?   ie: how many syscalls would it take?