From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266085AbUHAReJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:34:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266081AbUHAReJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:34:09 -0400 Received: from wsip-68-14-253-125.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.253.125]:905 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266116AbUHARdG (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:33:06 -0400 Message-ID: <410D2949.20503@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:32:57 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back To Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Phillips 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 Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!! References: <3689AF909D816446BA505D21F1461AE4C750E6@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> <200408011330.01848.phillips@istop.com> In-Reply-To: <200408011330.01848.phillips@istop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.