Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965145AbVIAOZ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:25:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965143AbVIAOZ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:25:56 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:41450 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965141AbVIAOZz (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:25:55 -0400 Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Teigland , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cluster@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20050901035939.435768f3.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <20050901035939.435768f3.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:49:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1125586158.15768.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 21 On Iau, 2005-09-01 at 03:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Why the kernel needs two clustered fileystems So delete reiserfs4, FAT, VFAT, ext2, and all the other "junk". > - Why GFS is better than OCFS2, or has functionality which OCFS2 cannot > possibly gain (or vice versa) > > - Relative merits of the two offerings You missed the important one - people actively use it and have been for some years. Same reason with have NTFS, HPFS, and all the others. On that alone it makes sense to include. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/