Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

From: AJ Lewis (alewis_at_redhat.com)
Date: 08/10/05

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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>, Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>, David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cluster@redhat.com

    On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:09:17PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
    > > So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs
    > > to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync
    > > that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have
    > > that executed by root, because a regular user can't?
    >
    > Do it in an initscripts and let users simply not do it, they shouldn't
    > even know what kind of filesystem they are on.

    I'm just thinking of a 100-node cluster that has different mounts on different
    nodes, and trying to update the bind mounts in a sane and efficient manner
    without clobbering the various mount setups. Ouch. 

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