Re: [PATCH 0/7] dlm: overview

Daniel Phillips
2005-04-29T04:23:47Z

On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:25, David Teigland wrote:
> There's a dlm daemon in user space that works with the specific sysfs
> files above and interfaces with whatever cluster infrastructure exists.
> The same goes for gfs, but the gfs user space daemon does quite a lot more
> (gfs-specific stuff).
>
> In other words, these aren't external API's; they're internal interfaces
> within systems that happen to be split between the kernel and user-space.

Traditionally, Linux kernel interfaces have been well-defined. I do not think
we want to break with that tradition now.

So please provide a pointer to the kernel interface you have in mind.

Regards,

Daniel