On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 12:51:10AM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Clearly, I ought to have asked why dlmfs can't be done by configfs. It is the > same paradigm: drive the kernel logic from user-initiated vfs methods. You > already have nearly all the right methods in nearly all the right places. configfs, like sysfs, does not support ->open() or ->release() callbacks. And it shouldn't. The point is to hide the complexity and make it easier to plug into. A client object should not ever have to know or care that it is being controlled by a filesystem. It only knows that it has a tree of items with attributes that can be set or shown. Joel -- "In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway." - Paul "Bear" Bryant Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
