From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266215AbUHBBx3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:53:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266216AbUHBBx2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:53:28 -0400 Received: from dci.doncaster.on.ca ([66.11.168.194]:53718 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266215AbUHBBx1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:53:27 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!! Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:53:46 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: "Walker, Bruce J" , Discussion of clustering software components including GFS , Linux Kernel Mailing List , opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, opengfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net, opendlm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <3689AF909D816446BA505D21F1461AE4C750E6@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> <200408011330.01848.phillips@istop.com> <410D2949.20503@backtobasicsmgmt.com> In-Reply-To: <410D2949.20503@backtobasicsmgmt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408012153.46835.phillips@istop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 01 August 2004 13:32, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > 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+. > > It appeared from the original posting that their "cluster-wide devfs" > actually supported all types of device nodes, not just block devices. I > don't know whether accessing a character device on another node would > ever be useful, but certainly using device-mapper wouldn't help for that > case. Unless device-mapper learned how to deal with char devices... Just a thought. Regards, Daniel