From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:57:23 -0400 Message-ID: <200509052057.23807.phillips@istop.com> References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <200509051149.49929.phillips@istop.com> <200509051118.45792.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars Marowsky-Bree , Andi Kleen , linux clustering , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.istop.com ([66.11.167.126]:18150 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965018AbVIFAy3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:54:29 -0400 To: Dmitry Torokhov In-Reply-To: <200509051118.45792.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Monday 05 September 2005 12:18, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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. What stops you from trying it with the patch? That kind of feedback would be worth way more than $0.02. Regards, Daniel