On Monday 05 September 2005 12:18, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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.
What stops you from trying it with the patch? That kind of feedback would be
worth way more than $0.02.
Regards,
Daniel
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