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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>,
	"Walker, Bruce J" <bruce.walker@hp.com>,
	Discussion of clustering software components including GFS
	<linux-cluster@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	opengfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
	opendlm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!!
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:26:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040816192602.GA467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410D2949.20503@backtobasicsmgmt.com>

Hi!

> >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.

Remote character devices seem extremely usefull to me...

mpg456 --device /dev/kitchen/dsp

cat /dev/roof/dsp > /dev/laptop/dsp

cat picture-to-scare-pigeons.raw > /dev/roof/fb0

X --device=/dev/livingroom/fb0

.... Okay, it will probably take a while until SSI cluster is the
right tool to network your home :-).

				Pavel
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-16 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-31 16:00 [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!! Walker, Bruce J
2004-08-01 17:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-08-01 17:32   ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-08-02  1:53     ` Daniel Phillips
2004-08-02  3:13     ` Ian Kent
2004-08-16 19:26     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-08-18 20:38       ` Jeff Macdonald
     [not found] <2o4AV-18E-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-31 16:54 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-01 16:26   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-31 18:48 Walker, Bruce J
2004-08-02  0:00 Walker, Bruce J

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