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

From: Lars Marowsky-Bree
Date: Sat Feb 21 2004 - 09:16:43 EST


On 2004-02-20T22:16:09,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxx> said:

> I presume you meant "DFS". I can't comment on the details of the plan
> for GFS just now, however consider OpenGFS: yes, it needs and has a
> cluster infrastructure. The kernel does not dictate anything about
> that infrastructure. Each DFS is free to implement its own
> infrastructure, possibly involving kernel extensions.

Yes. Though I do reserve the right to find this highly silly, that we
might end up with multiple hooks for clustering infrastructure in the
kernel...

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)?


Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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