From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266370AbUGESgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:36:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266379AbUGESgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:36:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:61903 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266370AbUGESf4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:35:56 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips Organization: Red Hat To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Minneapolis Cluster Summit, July 29-30 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:42:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407050209.29268.phillips@redhat.com> <20040705150951.GA18210@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040705150951.GA18210@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407051442.27397.phillips@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, On Monday 05 July 2004 11:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:09:29AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Red Hat and (the former) Sistina Software are pleased to announce > > that we will host a two day kickoff workshop on GFS and Cluster > > Infrastructure in Minneapolis, July 29 and 30, not too long after > > OLS. We call this the "Cluster Summit" because it goes well beyond > > GFS, and is really about building a comprehensive cluster > > infrastructure for Linux, which will hopefully be a reality by the > > time Linux 2.8 arrives. If we want that, we have to start now, and > > we have to work like fiends, time is short. We offer as a starting > > point, functional code for a half-dozen major, generic cluster > > subsystems that Sistina has had under development for several > > years. > > Don't you think it's a little too short-term? Not really. It's several months later than it should have been if anything. > I'd rather see the > cluster software that could be merged mid-term on KS (and that seems > to be only OCFS2 so far) Don't you think we ought to take a look at how OCFS and GFS might share some of the same infrastructure, for example, the DLM and cluster membership services? "Think twice, merge once" Regards, Daniel