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

From: Kevin P. Fleming (kpfleming_at_backtobasicsmgmt.com)
Date: 08/01/04

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To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>

    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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