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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: "Walker, Bruce J" <bruce.walker@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!!
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On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:00, Walker, Bruce J wrote:
> In the 2.4 implementation, providing this one capability by
> leveraging devfs was quite economic, efficient and has been very stable.

I wonder if device-mapper (slightly hacked) wouldn't be a better approach for 
2.6+.

Regards,

Daniel