Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161079AbVICAQy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:16:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161077AbVICAQy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:16:54 -0400 Received: from rgminet04.oracle.com ([148.87.122.33]:39343 "EHLO rgminet04.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161067AbVICAQx (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:16:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:16:28 -0700 From: Mark Fasheh To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux clustering , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining Message-ID: <20050903001628.GH21228@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <20050901035939.435768f3.akpm@osdl.org> <1125586158.15768.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050901132104.2d643ccd.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Oracle Corporation User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 19 On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:17:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > The only thing that should be probably resolved is a common API > for at least the clustered lock manager. Having multiple > incompatible user space APIs for that would be sad. As far as userspace dlm apis go, dlmfs already abstracts away a large part of the dlm interaction, so writing a module against another dlm looks like it wouldn't be too bad (startup of a lockspace is probably the most difficult part there). --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@oracle.com - 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/