Re: GFS2 and DLM

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jun 23 2006 - 10:53:03 EST


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linus, Andrew suggested to me to send this pull request to you directly.
> Please consider merging the GFS2 filesystem and DLM from (they are both
> in the same tree for ease of testing):

What's going on with gfs2_repermission? For one it's a totally useless
wrapper. Second we prefer to have everyone use vfs_permission or
file_permission and third WTF is it doing anywhere? Except for very rare
cases checking permissions is the VFS's job.

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