Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: GFS, what's remaining | Date | Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:18:45 -0500 |
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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.
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