Re: GFS requirements (was: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range)

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2004-02-21T14:09:13,
   Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxx> said:

> But the one true clustering infrastructure hasn't been developed yet. 

Yes.

> from being able to define that sensibly now.  It's better to implement 
> exactly what a given DFS needs for the time being.

Right.

> > So, how does OpenGFS/GFS achieve the communication? How does it
> > interact with the infrastructure (which, I infere from your above
> > comments, is meant to reside in user-space)?
> It's done both ways, actually.  No new kernel hooks are used in either
> case.

That doesn't answer my question how you are doing the user-space /
kernel communication ;-)

And will the user-space infrastructure to go with GFS be open source
too? Questions over questions.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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