Hi! > >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. Remote character devices seem extremely usefull to me... mpg456 --device /dev/kitchen/dsp cat /dev/roof/dsp > /dev/laptop/dsp cat picture-to-scare-pigeons.raw > /dev/roof/fb0 X --device=/dev/livingroom/fb0 .... Okay, it will probably take a while until SSI cluster is the right tool to network your home :-). Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
