Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:32:57 -0700 | From | "Kevin P. Fleming" <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!! |
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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. - 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/
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