Re: GFS2 and DLM

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:54:04PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> with just calling permission directly... we need to call it mainly because
> the VFS only does locking within a single node and we recheck the permissions
> in a few places after we've taken the glocks which provide cluster-wide
> exclusion.

->permission must give correct answers.  So I think the answer to your question
is that you need to do the right thing there and get rid of the additional
calls.

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