Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:18:05AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 	I thought I stated this in my other email.  We're not intending
> > to extend dlmfs.
> 
> Famous last words ;)

	Heh, of course :-)

> I don't buy the general "fs is nice because we can script it" argument,
> really.  You can just write a few simple applications which provide access
> to the syscalls (or the fs!) and then write scripts around those.

	I can't see how that works easily.  I'm not worried about a
tarball (eventually Red Hat and SuSE and Debian would have it).  I'm
thinking about this shell:

	exec 7</dlm/domainxxxx/lock1
	do stuff
	exec 7</dev/null

If someone kills the shell while stuff is doing, the lock is unlocked
because fd 7 is closed.  However, if you have an application to do the
locking:

	takelock domainxxx lock1
	do sutff
	droplock domainxxx lock1

When someone kills the shell, the lock is leaked, becuase droplock isn't
called.  And SEGV/QUIT/-9 (especially -9, folks love it too much) are
handled by the first example but not by the second.
	
Joel

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Joel Becker
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