lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Sep]   [4]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-09-04 07:59    [W:0.115 / U:0.516 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site