From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:18:45 -0500
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Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>, 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
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On Monday 05 September 2005 10:49, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> > On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com> wrote:
> > > The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems.  There are zero
> > > users of the userspace dlm api.
> >
> > That is incorrect...
> 
> Application users Lars, sorry if I did not make that clear.  The issue is 
> whether we need to export an all-singing-all-dancing dlm api from kernel to 
> userspace today, or whether we can afford to take the necessary time to get 
> it right while application writers take their time to have a good think about 
> whether they even need it.
>

If Linux fully supported OpenVMS DLM semantics we could start thinking asbout
moving our application onto a Linux box because our alpha server is aging.

That's just my user application writer $0.02.

-- 
Dmitry
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