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    SubjectRe: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
    Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com> wrote:
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    > If the only user is their tools I would say let it go ahead and be cute, even
    > sickeningly so. It is not supposed to be a general dlm api, at least that is
    > my understanding. It is just supposed to be an interface for their tools.
    > Of course it would help to know exactly how those tools use it.

    Well I'm not saying "don't do this". I'm saying "eww" and "why?".

    If there is already a richer interface into all this code (such as a
    syscall one) and it's feasible to migrate the open() tricksies to that API
    in the future if it all comes unstuck then OK. That's why I asked (thus
    far unsuccessfully):

    Are you saying that the posix-file lookalike interface provides
    access to part of the functionality, but there are other APIs which are
    used to access the rest of the functionality? If so, what is that
    interface, and why cannot that interface offer access to 100% of the
    functionality, thus making the posix-file tricks unnecessary?

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