From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261429AbUBTX4P (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:56:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261431AbUBTX4P (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:56:15 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:50839 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261429AbUBTX4N (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:56:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:56:02 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: GFS requirements (was: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range) Message-ID: <20040220235602.GD6280@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <200402201535.47848.phillips@arcor.de> <20040220211732.A10079@infradead.org> <200402201715.34315.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200402201715.34315.phillips@arcor.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2004-02-20T17:16:02, Daniel Phillips said: I'm trimming the mm list, because this isn't relevant to them. > Again, we (everybody who cared to jump in) now agree on what is sane > here, it's quite logical. As for supplying background material so > this makes sense to a wider group of people, sorry it's been on my > to-do list for a while. Getting a DFS, namely Sistina GFS, into the > tree is underway as you know from the press release, however turning > the ship takes time. Meanwhile, the api discussion can't wait because > the rudder on that ship is even smaller. Surely, such a GFS needs a cluster infrastructure - membership, messaging, DLM - in the kernel. Can you or anyone else from Sistina/RHAT clarify on the details of this? Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett