From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:18:45 -0500 Message-ID: <200509051118.45792.dtor_core@ameritech.net> References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <20050905141432.GF5498@marowsky-bree.de> <200509051149.49929.phillips@istop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Phillips , Lars Marowsky-Bree , Andi Kleen , linux clustering , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.103]:60530 "HELO smtp102.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932313AbVIEQTG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:19:06 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200509051149.49929.phillips@istop.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Monday 05 September 2005 10:49, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are zero > > > users of the userspace dlm api. > > > > That is incorrect... > > Application users Lars, sorry if I did not make that clear. The issue is > whether we need to export an all-singing-all-dancing dlm api from kernel to > userspace today, or whether we can afford to take the necessary time to get > it right while application writers take their time to have a good think about > whether they even need it. > If Linux fully supported OpenVMS DLM semantics we could start thinking asbout moving our application onto a Linux box because our alpha server is aging. That's just my user application writer $0.02. -- Dmitry