Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: GFS, what's remaining | Date | Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:49:49 -0400 |
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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.
> ...and you're contradicting yourself here:
How so? Above talks about dlm, below talks about cluster membership.
> > What does have to be resolved is a common API for node management. It is > > not just cluster filesystems and their lock managers that have to > > interface to node management. Below the filesystem layer, cluster block > > devices and cluster volume management need to be coordinated by the same > > system, and above the filesystem layer, applications also need to be > > hooked into it. This work is, in a word, incomplete.
Regards,
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