Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751228AbVIDF5N (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:57:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751220AbVIDF5N (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:57:13 -0400 Received: from agminet04.oracle.com ([141.146.126.231]:31225 "EHLO agminet04.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751207AbVIDF5M (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:57:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:56:51 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-cluster@redhat.com, wim.coekaerts@oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining Message-ID: <20050904055650.GX8684@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Phillips , Andrew Morton , linux-cluster@redhat.com, wim.coekaerts@oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <200509040051.11095.phillips@istop.com> <20050904050026.GU8684@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <200509040152.30027.phillips@istop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200509040152.30027.phillips@istop.com> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 34 On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:52:29AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > You do have ->release and ->make_item/group. ->release is like kobject release. It's a free callback, not a callback from close. > If I may hand you a more substantive argument: you don't support user-driven > creation of files in configfs, only directories. Dlmfs supports user-created > files. But you know, there isn't actually a good reason not to support > user-created files in configfs, as dlmfs demonstrates. It is outside the domain of configfs. Just because it can be done does not mean it should be. configfs isn't a "thing to create files". It's an interface to creating kernel items. The actual filesystem representation isn't the end, it's just the means. Joel -- "In the room the women come and go Talking of Michaelangelo." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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/