Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965018AbVIFAya (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:54:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965022AbVIFAya (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:54:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.istop.com ([66.11.167.126]:18150 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965018AbVIFAy3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:54:29 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: GFS, what's remaining Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:57:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lars Marowsky-Bree , Andi Kleen , linux clustering , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050901104620.GA22482@redhat.com> <200509051149.49929.phillips@istop.com> <200509051118.45792.dtor_core@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <200509051118.45792.dtor_core@ameritech.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509052057.23807.phillips@istop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1345 Lines: 32 On Monday 05 September 2005 12:18, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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 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. What stops you from trying it with the patch? That kind of feedback would be worth way more than $0.02. Regards, Daniel - 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/