[Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

Andrew Morton akpm at osdl.org
Thu Sep 1 10:59:39 UTC 2005


David Teigland <teigland at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, this is the latest set of gfs patches, it includes some minor munging
>  since the previous set.  Andrew, could this be added to -mm?

Dumb question: why?

Maybe I was asleep, but I don't recall seeing much discussion or exposition
of

- Why the kernel needs two clustered fileystems

- Why GFS is better than OCFS2, or has functionality which OCFS2 cannot
  possibly gain (or vice versa)

- Relative merits of the two offerings

etc.

Maybe this has all been thrashed out and agreed to.  If so, please remind me.




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