From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux clustering <linux-cluster@redhat.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFS, what's remainingh
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:18:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509060318.25260.phillips@istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509060155.04685.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 02:55, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:48, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:05, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > do you think it is a bit premature to dismiss something even without
> > > ever seeing the code?
> >
> > You told me you are using a dlm for a single-node application, is there
> > anything more I need to know?
>
> I would still like to know why you consider it a "sin". On OpenVMS it is
> fast, provides a way of cleaning up...
There is something hard about handling EPIPE?
> and does not introduce single point
> of failure as it is the case with a daemon. And if we ever want to spread
> the load between 2 boxes we easily can do it.
But you said it runs on an aging Alpha, surely you do not intend to expand it
to two aging Alphas? And what makes you think that socket-based
synchronization keeps you from spreading out the load over multiple boxes?
> Why would I not want to use it?
It is not the right tool for the job from what you have told me. You want to
get a few bytes of information from one task to another? Use a socket, as
God intended.
Regards,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 10:46 GFS, what's remaining David Teigland
2005-09-01 10:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-01 10:59 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-01 14:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-01 14:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-01 15:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-01 15:11 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-01 17:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-02 7:04 ` David Teigland
2005-09-01 17:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-01 20:21 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-02 21:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-02 23:03 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-03 0:16 ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-03 6:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-03 6:46 ` [Linux-cluster] " Wim Coekaerts
2005-09-03 22:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 1:09 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 1:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 3:06 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 4:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 4:30 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 4:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 5:00 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 5:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 5:56 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 4:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 4:58 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 5:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 5:49 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-05 4:30 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 8:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-05 9:24 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 9:19 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-05 9:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-05 9:48 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 12:21 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-05 23:20 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-14 9:01 ` Patrick Caulfield
2005-09-14 9:46 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-09-05 19:11 ` kurt.hackel
2005-09-04 6:10 ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-04 7:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 8:17 ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-04 8:37 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 6:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 7:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 8:01 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 8:18 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 9:11 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 9:18 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 9:39 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 18:03 ` Hua Zhong
2005-09-04 19:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 8:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-05 23:32 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-03 5:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-05 14:14 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-05 15:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-05 16:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 0:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 2:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 4:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 4:07 ` GFS, what's remainingh Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 4:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 5:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 6:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 6:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 7:18 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2005-09-06 14:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-09-06 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-03 7:06 ` GFS, what's remaining Wim Coekaerts
2005-09-03 7:27 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-09-05 14:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-09-05 20:24 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-09-05 20:53 ` Kurt Hackel
2005-09-05 23:37 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-06 5:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-06 12:55 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-09-03 5:18 ` David Teigland
2005-09-03 6:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-03 6:42 ` D. Hazelton
2005-09-03 10:35 ` David Teigland
2005-09-03 20:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-09-04 20:33 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-04 22:18 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-05 5:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-05 7:09 ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-05 14:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-05 8:27 ` real read-only [was Re: GFS, what's remaining] Pavel Machek
2005-09-05 14:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-05 10:44 ` [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-09-01 11:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-02 9:44 ` David Teigland
2005-09-02 11:46 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-03 5:28 ` Greg KH
2005-09-05 3:47 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 8:58 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-05 9:18 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 5:43 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 6:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-05 7:55 ` David Teigland
2005-09-05 8:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-10 10:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-05 6:29 ` David Teigland
2005-09-08 5:41 ` David Teigland
2005-09-01 12:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-01 17:27 ` Daniel Phillips
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