> what do the gluster mods do? > as I understood it, it added posix locking. is this still not supported by > the default fuse? > what are the other improvements? it adds flock() support, O_DIRECT open mode support and some performance enhancments. > it'd be ideal if we could use the standard fuse, but if it doesn't do what > needs doing, then it's obviously a problem. I plan to (from a long time, actually :) submit the patch in a more acceptable form to the mainstream fuse. There are a few hurdles, like, the flock() support is not 100% compliant (works for practically all the cases) and O_DIRECT mode support is only in open but not modifiable through fcntl(). I will try resubmiting the patch again since I was seeing O_DIRECT support request on the fuse-devel list by other users recently. avati
