Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!! | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:53:46 -0400 |
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On Sunday 01 August 2004 13:32, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:00, Walker, Bruce J wrote: > >>In the 2.4 implementation, providing this one capability by > >>leveraging devfs was quite economic, efficient and has been very stable. > > > > I wonder if device-mapper (slightly hacked) wouldn't be a better approach > > for 2.6+. > > It appeared from the original posting that their "cluster-wide devfs" > actually supported all types of device nodes, not just block devices. I > don't know whether accessing a character device on another node would > ever be useful, but certainly using device-mapper wouldn't help for that > case.
Unless device-mapper learned how to deal with char devices...
Just a thought.
Regards,
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