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SubjectRe: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Llu, 2005-09-05 at 12:53 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > - How are they ref counted
> > > - What are the cleanup semantics
> > > - How do I pass a lock between processes (AF_UNIX sockets wont work now)
> > > - How do I poll on a lock coming free.
> > > - What are the semantics of lock ownership
> > > - What rules apply for inheritance
> > > - How do I access a lock across threads.
> > > - What is the permission model.
> > > - How do I attach audit to it
> > > - How do I write SELinux rules for it
> > > - How do I use mount to make namespaces appear in multiple vservers
> > >
> > > and thats for starters...
> >
> > Return an fd from create_lockspace().
>
> That only answers about four of the questions. The rest only come out if
> create_lockspace behaves like a file system - in other words
> create_lockspace is better known as either mkdir or mount.

But David said that "We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on
a misc device.". That miscdevice will simply give us an fd. Hence my
suggestion that the miscdevice be done away with in favour of a dedicated
syscall which returns an fd.

What does a filesystem have to do with this?
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