Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:37:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:37:30 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-043-116.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.43.116]:44437 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:37:29 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Andreas Dilger , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:44:08 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: "Peter T. Breuer" , Lars Marowsky-Bree , linux kernel References: <200209031641.g83GfnD10219@oboe.it.uc3m.es> <20020903180243.GR32468@clusterfs.com> In-Reply-To: <20020903180243.GR32468@clusterfs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 18 On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:02, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Actually, we are using ext3 pretty much as-is for our backing-store > for Lustre. The same is true of InterMezzo, and NFS, for that matter. > All of them live on top of a standard "local" filesystem, which doesn't > know the things that happen above it to make it a network filesystem > (locking, etc). To put this in simplistic terms, this works because you treat the underlying filesystem simply as a storage device, a slightly funky kind of disk. -- 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/