On Monday 05 September 2005 12:18, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 10:49, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Monday 05 September 2005 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > > On 2005-09-03T01:57:31, Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The only current users of dlms are cluster filesystems. There are > > > > zero users of the userspace dlm api. > > > > > > That is incorrect... > > > > Application users Lars, sorry if I did not make that clear. The issue is > > whether we need to export an all-singing-all-dancing dlm api from kernel > > to userspace today, or whether we can afford to take the necessary time > > to get it right while application writers take their time to have a good > > think about whether they even need it. > > If Linux fully supported OpenVMS DLM semantics we could start thinking > asbout moving our application onto a Linux box because our alpha server is > aging. > > That's just my user application writer $0.02. What stops you from trying it with the patch? That kind of feedback would be worth way more than $0.02. Regards, Daniel -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
