[ogfs-dev]Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [ANNOUNCE] OpenSSI 1.0.0 released!!

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On Saturday 31 July 2004 12:00, Walker, Bruce J wrote:
>
> > In the 2.4 implementation, providing this one capability by
> > leveraging devfs was quite economic, efficient and has been very stable.
>
>
> 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.


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