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. -- Dmitry -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
