Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!!
"Kevin P. Fleming" <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:32:57 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.redhat.cluster,gmane.comp.file-systems.opengfs.devel |
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| Organization | Back To Basics Network Management |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:00, Walker, Bruce J wrote: > >>In the 2.4 implementation, providing this one capability by >>leveraging devfs was quite economic, efficient and has been very stable. > > > I wonder if device-mapper (slightly hacked) wouldn't be a better approach for > 2.6+. It appeared from the original posting that their "cluster-wide devfs" actually supported all types of device nodes, not just block devices. I don't know whether accessing a character device on another node would ever be useful, but certainly using device-mapper wouldn't help for that case.